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Politicking as Crimson-Hued Blood Sport
… Dissent: A Moral and Legal Evaluation," carefully explored the issues associated with "the question of the extent to which we can legitimately demand that the … His argument—with special thanks to his advisers, professors Michael Walzer and Arthur Sutherland, and further …
Harvard’s Sustainability Plan
… May 11, Harvard released a new sustainability action plan. The report takes a holistic look at the University’s impact … environment, societal equity, and the health and wellbeing of people into the actions we take and how we measure … cooling, and powering buildings account for 97 percent of the University’s direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions …
Camp Cooking, and Children
… works, longtime New Yorker writer Ian Frazier ’73 recounts the perils of preparing “breakfast in a paper bag” (from “Bad Advice,” … width:220 height:20] In the title essay of his newest collection, Lamentations of the Father , …
Issue: September-October 2008
Alumni College: Play Ball!
… An upcoming Alumni College seminar will explore the financial side of America's favorite sport, followed by a field trip to Fenway Park for an afternoon game. "The Business of Baseball," to be held on Saturday, May 29, will start …
Issue: May-June 2004
Princeton Details Endowment Results and Spending-Reduction Plans
… In a January 8 letter to the Princeton University community, that institution's … M. Tilghman, outlined its financial status in the wake of declining endowment values, and the steps that will be … illiquid endowment holdings); and "more than 45 percent" of operating revenue derived from the endowment—and the …
Brevia
… CONCEIVING CUBISM. The Fogg Art Museum has acquired Georges Braque's La Baie de l'Estaque (Bay of l'Estaque), painted in 1908. Created during Braque's … landscapes during the 1880s, Braque's planar rendering of the same scenes is considered among the earliest cubist …
Issue: November-December 2001
Chapter & Verse
… Lewis Robinson asks who wrote of never seeing a man with a large house and barn without imagining him carrying the house and barn on his back. Toni Verso seeks a story … "The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man …
Issue: September-October 2002
Cryptic Puzzle: “Dean III”
… Download the puzzle Download the hints Download the solution You can … Maryland Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS Harold Porosoff – Scarsdale, NY David L. Ratner '52 – Larkspur, CA … – Farmington Hills, MI … Solve the most recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52. … May-June 2014 cryptic …
Systematic Drug Discovery
… Midway through clinical trials for the experimental melanoma treatment PLX4032, researchers … PLX4032 had shown significant tumor shrinkage within weeks of beginning treatment, a radical change from the effective … PLX4032 was among the first apparent successes in the field of targeted therapy. The drug was directed to a specific, …
Issue: July-August 2013
Undergraduate English Oration: "Perfect Imperfection"
… by Alicia Menendez '05 Four years ago many of us received letters inviting us to be part of a seemingly perfect world. We all knew the response that the quasi-mythical idea of Harvard …
Basketball’s Lin Captures National Spotlight
… After the Houston Rockets' Yao Ming, the most famous Asian … versatility, Lin is a special athlete; this magazine's profile of him last year noted that he ranked among the Ivy League …
Small-Town Roots
… Small-town Professors. Faculty members at elite institutions like this one are commonly thought of as a sleek breed. But their origins sometimes are, or at least were, humble, and … end of each field, a running count of concentrators. No surprise, the number in comp lit halved from 2011 to 2019 (2020 …
Issue: January-February 2022
School CEO
… Richard M. Daley named Arne Duncan '86 chief executive officer of the city's public schools in June 2001, many Chicagoans have … for children on the city's South Side, his selection surprised most people. Chicago's public-school system is the …
Issue: September-October 2002
Comings and Goings
… Harvard clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual events around the country. For information on upcoming programs, contact …
Issue: November-December 2009
Would You Like Sugar With That?
… aspiring journalist and, I suppose, part flight attendant of the non-Steven Slater variety, I got a lot of coffee this … for solving these regular but potentially catastrophic crises needed to maintain their focus; they had to ensure …