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The Study of Fashion
… Fashion has become the subject of Harvard scholarship. Professor of law Jeannie Suk, for example, has analyzed …
Issue: January-February 2013
College: The Path to Opportunity and Prosperity
… events, was scheduled this morning to deliver an address on the value of higher education. The speech is part of a week-long focus … of living: Across the country, college costs…continue to rise as average wages for low- and middle-income families …
The Frisson of Friction
… On the evening of my twenty-first birthday, I was in the basement of the Science Center searching for a misplaced semicolon. … her favorite play, Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia . So I was surprised to learn that she had first read Arcadia the summer …
Issue: March-April 2011
“The Limits of Logic”
… English Address, by Avery W. Gardiner '97, J.D. '02. Her father, considering the weather and his daughter's future law … My first job was at the Dairy Queen in my hometown of Augusta, Maine. I won't claim that everything I need to … at the Dairy Queen—otherwise, I've wasted a lot of time and tuition dollars here at Harvard. But there is at …
Issue: July-August 2002
The “Steel Factory”
… What to make of the elfin man who in 1979 charmed Americans by donning a … on unarmed protestors in his own capital? What to make of the revolutionary transformation to which he is justifiably …
Issue: September-October 2011
Unpacking the Before and After of Voter Suppression
… Laverne Berry and Steve Miller have volunteered in each of the last three presidential elections. In 2008, 2012, and … like Election Protection, Rock the Vote, the League of Women Voters, and the NAACP— to achieve a simple task: …
The Caribbean Zola
… In the spring of 2012 , Brown University hosted an … coop.” Instead of demolishing tenements to build high-rise public housing “for the 5 percent, while kicking the … enlightened social and economic policies will give rise to good institutions. Both camps recognize, of course, …
Issue: November-December 2014
The Pandemic’s “Perfect and Terrible Storm”
… as COVID-19 cases in late October reached a record high in the United States, even epidemiologists who have been … for months that the pandemic will worsen with the approach of Northern hemisphere winter were surprised by the sudden upturn in cases—and the accelerating …
The Flame of Enlightenment
… The Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning … MacGregor Burns, Ph.D. ’47 , has turned to the biggest of Big Ideas in his field—the play of intellect, the problems of governance—for his new book, a …
Issue: November-December 2013
Western Civ.
… The memorial minute on the life of the late Loeb professor of classical art and …
Issue: January-February 2025
Kerry Washington Named Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year
… Kerry Washington has been chosen to receive the 2016 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year Award, honoring a “talented and socially engaged … group announced on January 6 . She joins an elite list of actresses honored by the nation’s oldest undergraduate …
Castling in the Square
… The Harvard Chess Club battles the clock and the competition by Paul Hoffman On the last Sunday in October, last year, four … memories, and the second is that they are calculating machines—that they think way ahead, exploring hundreds …
Issue: November-December 2002
Graduate School of Design Launches $110-Million Campaign
… The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) launched its … as climate change, resilience in the face of sea-level rise, the ability of small-scale interventions to make … materials but also in how they can invent new materials and machines to create them. In an afternoon panel on …
The Biology of Right and Wrong
… Philosophers have long debated the foundations of moral decision-making. “Rationalists” … empathy should guide moral decisions. Now Hazel associate professor of the social sciences Joshua Greene , a …
Issue: January-February 2012
Taking Charge of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
… [video:http://vimeo.com/3020519] … Taking Charge of the Beth Israel Deaconess MediPaul Levycal Center... … 2017 … Taking Charge of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center … Taking Charge …
Issue: September-October 2003