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Commencement Kickoff: Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises
… Our Commencement coverage begins with the Phi Beta Kappa service, featuring poet Albert Goldbarth and Gurney professor of English literature and professor of comparative …
Cambridge Hot Spot
… Sandwiched between Veggie Planet and the Central Square Theater, La Fábrica is the most exciting … music, food, and dancing in Cambridge. Actually, it’s one of the only such dynamic destinations in Greater Boston. “We have some of the best salsa, merengue, and Latin jazz musicians here …
Issue: November-December 2019
“Be Bold, Be Courageous, Be Your Best!”
… he himself was “no academic all-star”—and was even “kind of a crappy” airman—when he nevertheless decided to fly into space someday. Mars eluded him, … did not propel this ambitious plan, he said, “just as many of you aren’t getting your degrees tomorrow just because …
Barry Keoghan and Annette Bening Named Hasty Pudding’s 2024 Man and Woman of the Year
… Actors Barry Keoghan and Annette Bening will be the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 2024 Man and Woman of the Year, the group announced, with Man of the Year festivities set to take place on February 2, …
Former Women’s Hockey Coach Sues Harvard
… hockey coach Katey Stone, who retired 13 months ago in the wake of fierce complaints from former players about emotional … leave. Unnamed “Jane and John Doe” defendants are accused of defamation, and the suit asks for damages of $5 million. …
Summa Circumscripta
… When 116 seniors (6.8 percent of the class) received summas at Commencement in June of 1996, observers noted that the elite crowd, for the first …
How Not to Write about Minorities
… for a child who fled Vietnam as a four-year-old during the war. Midway through the film, an American navy patrol boat pulls up to a sampan full of Vietnamese civilians. When one of them, a woman, makes a sudden movement, the Americans …
Emmanuel Akyeampong
… Emmanuel Akyeampong Photograph by Jim Harrison When professor of history and of African-American studies Emmanuel Akyeampong married his wife, Ruth, in 1995, the couple observed some nuptial customs in their native …
Issue: September-October 2004
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
"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
Harvard President Responds to Secretary of Education
… The strained conversation between Harvard and the Trump … a letter from President Alan M. Garber to U.S. Secretary of Education Linda E. McMahon. Garber’s letter noted that … its core, legally-protected principles” under the threat of government retaliation. Last week, McMahon sent Harvard a …
Home Sweet Home
… When the Lincolns moved into the White House in 1861--son Robert … '93, was away at Harvard--"the whole place had the air of a run-down, unsuccessful, third-rate hotel," writes David Herbert Donald, Warren professor of American history and American civilization …
Learning How to Disagree
… In the weeks following Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, Tarek Masoud, Ford Foundation professor of democracy and governance, convened a series of panels at …
University People
… Commencement Speaker Jim Lehrer Courtesy of WSIU-TV Jim Lehrer , executive editor and anchor of PBS’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (and founder, with Robert … moderator of United States presidential debates, will be the guest speaker at the Harvard Alumni Association’s …
Issue: May-June 2006
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