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Harvard Management Company Leader Takes Medical Leave
… The University announced this morning that Stephen Blyth, president and chief executive officer of Harvard Management Company—which invests the endowment …
Coming to Terms with Sexual Harassment
… Following the January news that Winthrop House faculty dean Ronald S. … movie producer Harvey Weinstein against multiple charges of sexual assault, student residents, and other … because the University’s data show a significant number of internal cases of sexual harassment or assault, many …
Issue: May-June 2019
Reunions, Alumni Meeting to Be Virtual
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) today notified members … events each spring. Today’s announcement is not a surprise. Lovejoy signaled in October that in the event …
Gallery
… first product placement, managed by new doctors of dental medicine Prathima Prasanna, of Presque Isle, Maine, and Amy Crystal-Regen, of Lexington, … professor of engineering, announced to those assembling in the Old Yard, “My responsibility is to engineer with dignity …
Issue: July-August 2006
ART Reimagines Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess”
… roller-skating forest gods and dancing burlesque divas. But off-Broadway audiences whooped and danced in the aisles— The Donkey Show was a hit. Paulus looks to be just as daring with her newest production, an adaptation of Porgy and Bess. The Boston Globe reports that the …
Cervical Cancer, Deep History, Diagnostic Chips
… The front pages of the New York Times’ s news, arts, and science sections on … Vinegar and Ingenuity,” highlighted the use in Thailand of an inexpensive technique—employing vinegar and topical …
Return to Harvard Day
… On April 13, alumni/ae of all classes, their spouses, and their high-school-aged offspring are welcome to visit the College to attend …
Issue: March-April 2005
Films by a Japanese Master
… In Yasujiro Ozu’s gentle comedy Good Morning, two young brothers stop speaking to protest their parents’ refusal to buy … tensions and celebrate the quiet, ordinary lives of lower-middle-class Japanese families. A still image from Late Autumn Courtesy of the Film Archive It’s classic Ozu style. The revered …
Issue: July-August 2023
Cambridge 02138
… A comment from an uninformed foreigner. It seems to me that the U.S. Supreme Court is the very insurance that the … Caplan, March-April, page 48). In the U.K., decisions of the courts are subject to government modification. I wish … Houghton Library as a scholarly temple whose treasures surprised and enthralled (“ An ‘Enchanted Palace,’ ” …
Issue: May-June 2017
Big Guns Take Aim at Big Tobacco
… Young teens in poor countries often buy cigarettes one at a time because they can’t afford a whole package. But that’s still enough … Dlamini-Zuma, a guest speaker at this week’s “Governance of Tobacco in the 21st Century” conference, sponsored by …
Home Builder
… Upon graduating , Nick Volk ’53 began traveling the world, going from Cambodia to Thailand to Bangladesh … Corporation for 23 years. Though he was president of the Harvard Club of Toronto and the Harvard Alumni Association’s regional …
Issue: July-August 2012
Douglas W. Elmendorf Appointed Harvard Kennedy School Dean
… Elmendorf, Ph.D. ’89, who concluded his service as director of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO—read his vita here) in March, has been named …
Wikipedia Against Censorship
… in Iran in 2013, you wouldn’t have been able to find it; the article was one of 963 blocked by the government. This tidbit about the Harry Potter actress is found in a 2013 University of Pennsylvania report on Iran’s censorship of Wikipedia. …
Capturing New England
… From skyscrapers to stormy seas, “New England on Paper,” at the Boston Athenaeum, offers 56 contemporary works. They reflect “responses to the … cultural environment,” says Catharina Slautterback, curator of the library’s 100,000 prints and photographs. Using the …
Issue: July-August 2017
What's All This About Boodh?
… When we think of Henry David Thoreau, A.B. 1837, we conjure up a literary stylist, a close observer of nature, a political oppositionist, and a counselor who … in Thoreau's Ecstatic Witness (Yale University Press, $35) the first in-depth study of the man's religious thought. …
Issue: July-August 2002