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Using the Law for Good
… As a child , Justice Sonia Sotomayor loved watching the television show Perry Mason . From the living room of her Bronx public housing apartment, the future Supreme … enraptured by the lead fictional lawyer. “In the first half of the show, he investigated the crime,” recalls Sotomayor. …
Legacies’ Legacy
… soon, historians will identify two 2023 nails in the coffin. The first is the Supreme Court’s June decision … the thinking goes, attempts to maintain some degree of racial and ethnic diversity under the new law might …
Issue: November-December 2023
Muscles and Medicine
… created a mighty mouse, a rodent endowed with a rare type of muscle that combines unusual power and speed, like that of a sprinter, with the endurance of a marathoner. “Damn, they’re good …
Issue: July-August 2007
Football 2021: Harvard 49, Columbia 21
… losses, to Princeton and Dartmouth respectively, the Harvard football team ventured to Manhattan on Saturday … got a needed restorative, playing its best all-around game of the season, building a 42-0 lead, and trampling the Lions … who all are 4-1 in the league. (More about this at the end of the story.) The triumph also ensured a winning season for …
Changing, Challenging China
… In mid March , Harvard Business School and the Harvard China Fund will formally inaugurate a substantial center in Shanghai—one of the University’s largest international facilities—to … Energy Group. His new book, Playing Our Game: Why China’s Rise Doesn’t Threaten the West, is forthcoming from Oxford. …
Issue: March-April 2010
“Drip, Drip, Drip”
… winter and spring sports were forced to end early due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there were still moments of triumph for Crimson athletes. We hope you enjoy this … and he’s extremely athletic—very talented. He can surprise you and do these things that are kind of unexpected.” …
Benjamin Porteous, Latin Salutatory
… Iohannis Martini Annenbergensis Praeses Bacow, Decani, Professores doctissimi, Hospites ter-honorati, Alumni … et pro te gaudebam.” Tractatur. “Ben, quid agis? Num bibliothecam ipsam in ista sarcina tua portas?” Tunc demum … (English translation below) A Salute to John Martin of Annenberg President Bacow, Deans, Most Learned …
University People
… One for the Books Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Robert C. Darnton Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Sidney Verba Robert C. Darnton ’60, JF ’68, Davis …
Issue: July-August 2007
Printing in Free Space
… what looks like a sharp glowing pen squeezes out a coil of silver, starting from a base and curling upward into the air. It’s actually a nozzle attached to a 3-D printer, and the coil of silver, made of an ink composed of nanoparticles, is …
Issue: September-October 2016
The Good Fight
… In 1831 , the abolitionist and women’s rights advocate Maria W. … within Boston’s small but vibrant Beacon Hill community of free blacks who had come to view the city as something of a haven. American abolitionism was gaining momentum, and …
Issue: November-December 2023
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
12,000 Harvard Alumni File Amicus Brief in Funding Freeze Lawsuit
… governor Maura Healey ’92. Comedian Conan O’Brien ’85. These were among the 12,000 alumni who signed an amicus brief submitted Monday in support of Harvard’s lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s … governance that extend far beyond Harvard. “It is…no surprise that so many people throughout this country and across …
An Invincible Spirit
… 1916 , more than 1,100 Harvard students, many motivated by the possibility of the United States’ entrance into the Great War, joined what would become one of the country’s first Reserve Officers’ Training Corps …
Issue: July-August 2016
Brevia
… Robert W. Iuliano Jon Chase / Harvard News Office Harvard's Attorney After serving as acting vice president and general counsel during the 2002-2003 academic year, Robert W. Iuliano '83 was … a search and filling out the Massachusetts Hall team of President Lawrence H. Summers. Iuliano, who took his law …
Issue: September-October 2003
A Presidency’s End
… 7—when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel, setting this and other campuses aboil—through her resignation on January 2 … with the headline issues—how Harvard handled allegations of antisemitism (which became entwined with clashes about … an independent review, too. To avoid conflicts that might arise from the usual University bodies (nominally under the …
Issue: March-April 2024