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A Harvard-Henry Kissinger Détente?
… A series of low-key announcements— a March 7 posting on a Harvard … , followed by a March 26 prompt for "Featured Events" on the Harvard homepage ("Now Available: Tickets for 'A … of other things.” He also addressed issues that would arise, sooner than anyone then knew, in Iraq and elsewhere: …
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
Painful Questions from Indigenous Leaders
… At a Radcliffe Institute conference intended to launch the process of making amends for Harvard’s long history of injustice against indigenous communities—detailed in a …
Alumni Awards
… The HAA Clubs and SIGs [Shared Interest Groups] Committee … were presented to the following recipients at the HAA Board of Directors’ winter meeting on January 31. Judith B. … they thrived. Membership in the Harvard Club of Poland has risen from 20 to 300 alumni within the past six years due to …
Issue: March-April 2013
Letters
… yourturn@harvard.edu . Browse recently published letters in the current issue . … Letters to the Editor … Letters … page …
Your Harvard Classics
… you choose for a twenty-first century Harvard Classics?" the editors asked readers (November-December, page 56), inviting them to submit lists of 10 books, excluding various titles and authors deemed … By press time, 38 lists were in hand. The book chosen most often was James Joyce's Ulysses (six times), followed by …
Prototyping House Renewal
… Renovation of the 12 undergraduate Houses--likely the College’s highest … advance under a plan, announced in mid January by Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith, to empty …
Issue: March-April 2011
Two Buildings, Many Obstacles
… Permit hurdles remained as this magazine went to press, but the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' (FAS) long-delayed effort to cluster … plans to build on the open lawn behind the Graduate School of Design's (GSD) Gund Hall met stiff opposition from a …
Admissions on Trial
… Affirmative Action has been one of the most divisive issues in American law and politics for … it could defer to the 25-year Grutter timeline. A surprise possibility, President Lawrence S. Bacow told the …
Issue: January-February 2023
Tenure and Gender
… Thirty-two photographs hang on the curving wall along the spiral staircase that connects the economics department offices in Littauer Center. They portray Harvard's past … total 68; their proportional representation has generally risen gradually, from one-quarter to one-third of the total, …
Issue: January-February 2005
Commencement Confetti
… The South, Risen. At the Harvard Alumni Association’s annual … Winfrey.” Farther afield, he noted that the chief marshal of the twenty-fifth reunion class, astronaut Stephanie … ’13, newly “ready to lead people and organizations in enterprises that will serve society.” Early Birds for a Day At the …
Issue: July-August 2013
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 …
A Taboo Passion
… A Taboo Passion : "Addiction is the name we give to a taboo passion," says Ann Marlowe '79, G '80, author of how to stop time: heroin from A to Z (Basic Books, 1999), a rare literary treatment of heroin that neither defends nor demonizes the drug. …
Over There
… Geoffrey A. Fowler '00, who served as one of this magazine's Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows, has been spending the current academic year in England on a Harvard-Cambridge …
Scoreboard 2.0
… "We're never really going to be 'finished' with the website," says John Veneziano, director of sports information, but on-line access to news about … enhanced site ( http://gocrimson.ocsn.com/ ). The OCSN (Official College Sports Network)—which serves 125 colleges …
Issue: January-February 2003