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Dark Beauty
… In the new film Black Swan, Natalie Portman ’03 plays Nina, a … readily takes to the white swan, but must endure a kind of personal purgatory to claim the dark side of both the ballet role and her personality. Lily (Mila …
Issue: January-February 2011
Board of Overseers and HAA Elected Director Candidates
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee … has announced the 2024 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) and the HAA’s own …
Issue: March-April 2024
Wild Minds
… In the summer of 1980, while doing primate research at a … to be looking intensely at him, so he approached her cage. The monkey also approached Hauser and, while sitting in front of him, reached through the cage and slowly wrapped both of …
“Far From a Finished Product”
… basketball presence, Harvard has never had to look farther than Boston College—a longtime Big East power and now a member of the highly competitive Atlantic Coast Conference—for a … overjoyed after having upset the number-one University of North Carolina three days earlier—had looked past the …
Radcliffe Celebrates 25
… When Mary Ingraham Bunting-Smith became president of Radcliffe College in 1960, she sought to combat what she called “a national climate of unexpectation” surrounding women’s education. As part of that mission, she created the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, which …
Daunting Debts
… garden, explains Carol Strickland, a sixth-year student at the Graduate School of Education (GSE). "You can't plant a seed and expect it to … in the first place. Strickland says she counts herself one of the lucky ones: her financial-aid package has been …
Issue: July-August 2002
Cryptic Puzzle: “HarvardX”
… Download the puzzle Download the hints Download the solution You can … – Vienna, VA Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS Harold Porosoff – Scarsdale, NY Arnold Reich – Bronxville, NY Joe Rogers … – Farmington Hills, MI … Solve the most recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52. … November-December 2013 …
Our Obedient Servant
… February (see "Brevia," May-June, page 72), was secretary of the Governing Boards from 1971 to 1991. Jeremy A. Knowles, now dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, speaking at Shenton's …
Teaching Hip-Hop in China
… into Hangzhou with swampy armpits and jet-lagged eyes. Each of us had our own classroom dreamscapes, with syllabus titles like “(Post)human Creativity: Art in the Digital Age” and “Dances With Wolves: Animal Psychology and Human Body Language.” The conceit of the Harvard Seminars for Young Leaders in China (HSYLC) …
Issue: January-February 2018
Cryptic Puzzle: “Botanist”
… Download the puzzle Download the hints Download the solution E-mail John de Cuevas the … the hints and solution! … Solve the most recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52. … May-June 2011 cryptic …
Dean Shinagel Fêted
… The longest-serving dean in Harvard’s history, Michael Shinagel, dean of continuing education and University extension, was honored at a reception in the Faculty Room of University Hall on May 14, prior to his retirement at the …
Chapter & Verse
… James Lyon asks for the source of the poem: "I know not to what strange and … Calabi would like the source and full text, if any, of the fragment "Love loves to love love." Charles Miller …
Issue: September-October 2001
Brevia
… Graduate School Dean Jones professor of statistics Xiao-Li Meng, Ph.D. ’90—a member of the faculty since 2001 and chair of his department since … expecting them to be disbursed to servers as tips. Rugby rises . The athletics department has announced that women’s …
Issue: November-December 2012
Study Abroad, Honors at Home
… The faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has made it easier … with jawboning, may slow or even reverse grade inflation. The changes, adopted at May 7 and 21 faculty meetings, concluded a year of debate and data-gathering directed by professor of …
Issue: July-August 2002
Harvard Offers Peace Pipe
… Hunkpapa Sioux artist, and his colleague Wayne Pruse, both of the United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, North … summer to examine certain objects in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. They looked at war shields, …
Issue: September-October 2001