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"The Gates of Paradise"
… The main baptistery doors of the Duomo in Florence, created by Lorenzo Ghiberti between … Michelangelo himself declared them “worthy to be the gates of Paradise.” Each bronze door stands 16 feet high, weighs …
Issue: March-April 2007
From the Archives: Unequal Incomes
… In an era of widening income inequality—with all it implies for … Freeman’s prescient, and still very pertinent, overview of the problems and challenges. His more recent essay for the … and professional athletes, to name the most prominent--have risen rapidly, while the earnings of the majority of the …
“The Work of the Public Health Leader Is the Work of the Herdsman”
… Long before starting his current role at the World Bank, which now includes helping coordinate the … coronavirus pandemic, Doctor Muhammad Ali Pate grew up one of 10 children in a family of herdsmen in Nigeria—what “might seem like an unusual …
Curiosities: The Art of Childhood
… bundled in winter hats and coats, blissfully asleep under the protective arm of a caregiver. It’s a domestic scene laid bare in public: a reflection of children’s trusting innocence amid a subterranean journey …
Issue: November-December 2022
Human and Machine Intelligence
… Harvard celebrated the launch of the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural … in December 2021 , shared their vision for the new enterprise. President Lawrence S. Bacow spoke about how far …
The Context: Resurrecting the Woolly Mammoth
… This is the tenth post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival stories—offering our readers a useful background … reorganization. Its organisms are built to be biological machines, with DNA and proteins standing in for circuit …
The State of Civil Rights
… During a conversation Thursday evening in Sanders Theatre that ranged from memories of civil rights marches to police violence and current … health, and the inaction of powerful institutions amid crises of injustice, King returned to his father’s words, and …
The End of Shopping Week
… During their last regular meeting of the academic year, on May 3, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted by a 3:2 margin to replace …
Women of the Year
… Concluding the year in which Harvard transitioned from its first woman president to its twenty-eighth man to hold the office, the University showcased a dazzling array of female … month when several states (including some with unaddressed crises in maternal health and infant mortality) acted to …
Issue: July-August 2019
The Eviction of the Bow & Arrow Press
… Since 1978, in a quiet corner of Adams House, a small studio founded by students has made … printing presses and type for anyone wishing to learn the venerable art of letterpress printing. Its location at the intersection of …
Sarah Whiting Named Dean of Graduate School of Design
… Sarah Whiting, dean of the Rice University School of Architecture, has been named dean of the Harvard Graduate …
The Imbalance of Power
… For more than 50 years, the transatlantic partnership between the United States and Europe has been the linchpin of this country's foreign policy. The North Atlantic Treaty … the Suez Crisis in 1956, Vietnam in the 1960s, the energy crises in the 1970s, and the Euromissiles controversy in the …
Issue: March-April 2004
A Pleasure of the Flesh
… Athenians of the fifth century B.C.were crazy about seafood, and for … in Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens , a learned treatise on eating, …
Remembering Tom Lehrer
… The passing of Tom Lehrer ’47, A.M. ’47, G ’66 on July 26 at the age of 97 was noted this week in The Washington Post , The New …
"The Monet of the Mountaintop"
… career as a marketing executive in toiletries and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals—first with Clairol, then Old … had a creative bent,” he says, “and I was always in charge of advertising, packaging, and the creative groups in the big companies I was with.” Photograph courtesy of Peter Liman Liman with his Sunflowers, painted last …
Issue: March-April 2007