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From the Soil Up
… year marks one hundred years since Beatrix Farrand designed the gardens at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and … garden and landscape studies tucked in the northern corner of Georgetown, Washington, D.C. The gardens boast exuberant … in 1940. The 16 acres and neo-Georgian home that now comprise the research institution were the more formal gardens …
The Fiction of Limbo
… to self-analyze it, my guess is that it probably comes from the fact that my history is one of transit, of being in limbo.” For Yoon—whose most recent … emphasizes the physicality of memory: “Always to his surprise, it was this house his mind had often leaped to these …
Issue: May-June 2020
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
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 …
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: …
Seniors of Note
… “The members of this year’s graduating class all possess talents and experiences that will carry them far in the world beyond the Yard. What follows is an unscientific selection—a sampling and snapshot—of six of the 1,570 “candidates for the first degree” …
Issue: May-June 2007
The Art of the Dodge
… During this year’s presidential campaign, the candidates will face many questions they do not want to … behavioral scientist, social psychologist, and assistant professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, sheds light …
Issue: March-April 2012
The Endowment: Up, and Upheaval
… year for investors generally was a very strong year for the University. Harvard Management Company (HMC), concluding … leadership, reported on August 21 that the endowment had risen to $34.9 billion during the fiscal year ended June 30 from $29.2 billion 12 months earlier, an increase of $5.7 billion. That 19.5 percent growth is the product of …
Issue: November-December 2007
A Reunion of One’s Own
… When I arrived at Harvard in 1979, one of the campus wonders was the Science Center, shaped, according … trekked across campus to use them, while the rest of us wrote our term papers on typewriters. There were no …
Issue: May-June 2008
Parks for Tomorrow
… old industrial plaza in Arles, France. Entirely concrete, the space posed a problem. The area was being transformed … a simple question: what would nature do? Smets, now a professor in practice of landscape architecture, says that as … asks one how the city could adapt to a global temperature rise of two degrees Celsius. The others he asks, what about …
Issue: July-August 2024
"At the Interface"
… On a rainy September morning in 1999, hundreds of Native Americans gathered on the Mall near the U.S. Capitol to celebrate the … for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). Senator Ben Nighthorse …
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
Friction at the Entry Level
… The debate over Hispanic assimilation in America has tended to sidestep a troubling reality. In many of the places where immigrants are making the deepest … crime has gone up. Borjas graphed a correlation between a rise in immigration in the 1970s and an increased …
Issue: May-June 2007
The Art of the Cookbook
… he was feeling burned out at a legal-services job. Next, in the mid 1980s he met, became friends with, and started … cold-station guy for Chris Schlesinger, former chef/owner of Cambridge’s renowned East Coast Grill. Willoughby had no … magazines at America’s Test Kitchen, another Kimball enterprise, based in Brookline, Massachusetts. It’s mostly in his …
Issue: March-April 2013
Aid and Tuition Head Higher
… Echoing the enhancement in financial aid implemented in the fall of 1998, the College has increased its undergraduate aid … term bill--tuition, room and board, and fees--will rise 3.5 percent, or $1,159, to $34,269 (up 55 percent from …