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Sommersemester
… It is week 3 of my Sommersemester at the Freie Universität in west Berlin and finally—finally—I am hitting my stride. “In The Good Person of Szechuan, Berthold Brecht has created what looks at first …
Issue: July-August 2005
Cutting Costs
… With budgets tightening around Harvard (see the profile of new financial vice president Ann E. Berman), President …
Issue: May-June 2003
Art Across Borders
… Osman Khalid Waheed ’93 and Qudsia Rahim were organizing the inaugural Lahore Biennale, a large-scale international … holding [the project] back,” says John Tain ’96, curator of the third edition of the biennale, which opened October 6 and will run until …
Cryptic Puzzle: “Expansion”
… Download the puzzle Download the hints Download the solution You can … – Framingham, MA Itai Pines – Portland, OR Harold Porosoff – Scarsdale, NY Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MD … – Farmington Hills, MI … Solve the most recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52. … January-February 2014 …
Five Harvardians win MacArthur Fellowships
… writer Imani Perry is among five Harvardians named among the 2023 MacArthur fellows , announced today. The … pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.” Each of the approximately two-dozen fellows is awarded $800,000, … funds are a no-strings-attached investment in the promise of the fellows’ work. Perry, the Morss professor of studies …
"Noble Exertions": Law and Public Service
… As celebrants gathered in a huge tent on Holmes Field on October 23 to toast … a $400-million goal; 23,000 participating donors; 118 gifts of $1 million or more, including eight of $10 million or more), President Drew Faust used the …
Advancing Art
… its vision for curricular and facilities investments in the creative and performing arts (see our arts task force … A.M. ’63, gave the Harvard Art Museum 31 important works of modern and contemporary art (one of the most significant such donations in the museum’s …
Issue: January-February 2009
Serving a “Truly Mission-Driven” Institution
… reflective conversation at Massachusetts Hall on the morning of May 11, just weeks before the conclusion of his 12-year … University conference center within the commercial “enterprise research campus” as clear benefits, delivered or in …
Double Duty
… When he stepped down as president of the Harvard Law School Association on Class Day, June 5, … Robert N. Shapiro '72, J.D. '78, completed a unique form of service to the University. He is the only person known to …
Issue: July-August 2002
Body Fakes
… Our nervous system sends us thousands, if not millions, of buzzing sensations each day. Fortunately, the brain lets us screen important sensory messages from … body chatter. This filtering ability explains why most of us never seek medical attention for common aches and …
Issue: July-August 2002
Senior Fellow William Lee on Harvard’s Strategic Challenges
… The University’s governance reforms, unveiled in late 2010 , expanded the size of the Harvard Corporation, enabling it to broaden the range … financial returns from a commercially oriented “enterprise research campus,” development of which can presumably …
Rebuilding Churches
… ’93 was deeply involved in public service—as a Big Brother and head of the Freshman Urban Program steering committee, among … have in the world.” Photograph by Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Tim McCarthy ’93 (above), Ajarae Johnson ’02, Greg …
Issue: May-June 2008
Football: Harvard 28-New Hampshire 23
… football fans might have been permitted a sinking feeling of déjà vu during the fourth quarter at the Stadium last Friday night. The … to cut the home team’s lead to 28-23 and now the Crimson offense was charged with running out the clock. The previous …
Football: Harvard 24, Cornell 7
… It was a dark and stormy half. The first 30 minutes of the Harvard football team’s game … 7-0. Afterward, Cornell coach David Archer expressed surprise over Murphy’s decision to go for it. “I thought they …
Harvard College Applications Level Off
… College received 34,285 applications for admission to the class of 2016, about 2 percent fewer than the 34,950 received last … to the College’s news release, William R. Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid, attributed the decline, …