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Forward, March
… The day after leaving the U.S. Army, Spencer Kympton, M.B.A. … in a military family, had spent eight years as an aviation officer on tours in Korea, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Central and South America. Yet he felt barely any sense of loss or disconnection in moving on. “I went right into a …
Issue: November-December 2014
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
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
Shootback Nairobi
… Kenya, with her British husband in 1996, cannot forget the smell of her first walk through Mathare, Nairobi's largest and poorest slum: a "dense mingling of exhaust fumes, burning rubbish, sweat, sewage, and …
Issue: November-December 2001
A Leap into Books
… For 17 years Paul Dry '66 commuted to the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, where he was a successful, … terribly high-rolling, stock-options trader. The whirlwind of activity pleased him, as did the autonomy, and the job … at Stanford, did Dry decide to trade in the heady world of high finance for the cerebral enclave of a literary …
Issue: November-December 2001
Stick, Helmet, and Butterfly
… Hockey parents, they say, don’t like their kids to become goalies because … icemen, Crimson goalie Kyle Richter ’10 has a perfect set of teeth. This season, Richter has had ample reason to … a 6-3-2 record, at that point, and the performance in goal of the six-foot, one-inch, 188-pound Richter was an …
Issue: March-April 2008
Online Overdrive
… The frantic pace of expansion and experimentation in online … and its edX partnership with MIT, and its principal for-profit competitors Coursera and Udacity—has if anything sped … reach. On May 21, edX announced 15 new partners, bringing the total to 27. They include Cornell; a second liberal-arts …
Issue: July-August 2013
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
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
Cortices in C Minor
… This is your brain on music: lighting up all over the place. Mark Jude Tramo, M.D., Ph.D. '98, an assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, and others in his …
Issue: March-April 2002
Brat. Faker.
… Responding to a national committee of petitioners urging the city to recognize “one of the most important journalists of his generation,” the …
Issue: September-October 2010
One Shoe, No Problems
… By the time Kieran Tuntivate ’20 gets on the line for a race, … Gordon track, on February 23, Tuntivate’s left shoe popped off. In the scenarios he had rehearsed, this one had not … the race, a runner from Columbia stepped on the back heel of his left shoe, pulling it under his foot like a slipper. …
Issue: May-June 2019
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 …
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 …
Mexico Debates Marijuana
… plan to start now, even though he recently became one of only four people in Mexico granted the right to do so, after a legal battle that went all the … heroin (and methamphetamines) along the Mexican border have risen. To truly disable organized crime, Torres Landa and …
Issue: March-April 2016