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Economist Claudia Goldin Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
… The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has conferred the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences on Lee professor of economics Claudia Goldin. She was honored for …
Another Museum Proposed
… Harvard has floated the idea that it build an important new museum of natural and cultural history on some yet-to-be-determined … to the job in 1998 and who has high ambitions for the enterprise. "Harvard is world class in teaching and research by …
Eclectic Eating
… a great hangout/restaurant—and to enjoy complete freedom in the kitchen. “I like to think of it as a place where everyone can feel at home,” says … hoisin sauce and sesame seeds and served with a fresh mound of kimchi spiced with chili paste and slivers of red pepper. …
Issue: January-February 2009
Comings and Goings
… University clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual gatherings. Following is a partial list of Harvard-affiliated …
Issue: November-December 2005
Providence, R.I.
… Ditch the car and take the train to Providence. Numerous … vibrant downtown district are within easy walking distance of the station. There’s outdoor ice-skating at the huge … typically uncrowded) rink on Kennedy Plaza —within sight of the historic Providence Biltmore hotel, which was saved …
Issue: January-February 2017
That Very Mad Affair
… Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation (Knopf, $25.95), by David A. Price, J.D. '86, is a stylishly written, authoritative retelling of the opening of the first permanent English settlement in …
Issue: November-December 2003
Governing Harvard: A Faculty View
… At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on September … a most difficult one,” punctuated by sharp conflicts over the views and leadership of President Lawrence H. Summers. Given that “There is no …
Issue: November-December 2005
Cryptic Puzzle: “Museum”
… Download the puzzle Download the hints Download the solution “Museum” … – Manhattan, KS Segrid O'Gore – Seattle, WA Harold Porosoff – Scarsdale, NY Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MD … – Farmington Hills, MI … Solve the most recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52. … September-October 2012 …
"I don't want to be stereotyped."
… bars or being set up through friends and family members....The problem with meeting women in bars is that they … sometimes view you with suspicion, like you are some sort of player. So you start off with what might be the opposite of the benefit of the …
Issue: March-April 2003
Provost Positions
… The provost’s office ( www.provost.harvard.edu ) continues to add staff to cover more areas of University-wide planning and coordination. Doyle … serving as vice provost for research policy; he works with the office of sponsored research, the general counsel, and …
Issue: September-October 2005
Cryptic Puzzle: “Big Brother”
… Download the puzzle Download the hints Download the solution You … Patrick D. Phillips – Bainbridge Island, WA Harold Porosoff – Scarsdale, NY Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MD … – Farmington Hills, MI … Solve the most recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52. … July-August 2013 …
Chapter & Verse
… Alon Ferency requests the source of a quotation that runs, roughly, “Oh life! That … attribution, by a New York State probate judge: Estate of A.B., 1Tucker 249 (N.Y. Surrogate, 1866). Frank …
Issue: May-June 2005
A Hidden Youthfulness
… What if the stem cells in our bodies live on, even as we age? What … just asleep, quiescent, like forgotten sentinels nodding off at remote outposts, waiting for orders? If only … But is the slowness of repair due to some deficiency that arises with age, that stops normal processes from working …
Issue: January-February 2010
Warrior Artists
… annihilated Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and the U.S. cavalrymen under his direct command at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in the Montana Territory on June 25, … J.S. Moore, reputedly killed by Half Moon in 1868. A group of at least five Lakota warriors had repurposed the ledger …
Issue: May-June 2009
Kennedy: Color Line Persists in U.S. Politics
… although Barack Obama’s election was thought by many to be the ultimate sign of racial progress in America, it has also resulted in “an inflated sense of accomplishment” within the United States, warns Klein …