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Democracy Is Self-Correcting
… deepens, and delivers,” United States ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, J.D. ’99, told degree … on May 28. Power, who was founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at HKS from 1998 to 2002 and subsequently served there as Lind professor of the practice of global leadership and public …
Cambridge 02138
… her reflections on Clint Smith’s excellent new book, How The Word Is Passed (“ Getting Close to the Past ,” … page 57). Smith illustrates so clearly the vital importance of public historians in sharing history with non-academics, … states, but rather in western Massachusetts, which comprises Hampden County (with Springfield its seat) as well as …
Issue: January-February 2022
Penn 17, Harvard 7
… Pennsylvania ruled the scrimmage line at rain-drenched Harvard Stadium on … Quakers scored on a 51-yard pass play in the third minute of the game, built a 17-0 halftime lead, and emerged with a 17-7 victory. The loss effectively doused Harvard’s hopes of a third consecutive Ivy League championship. The Quakers …
Self-Definition
… From the book Joel Derfner’s new book reveals some hidden depths. … a book] is like having a job on Wall Street, in terms of job security and how much you’re paid.” With Swish: My … Gayest Person Ever (Broadway Books), a personal exploration of contemporary gay culture and sexual identity, Derfner saw …
Issue: September-October 2008
Summer Scholarship
… every half inch she can get and whose most violent act heretofore has been the butchering of syntactical convention by writing absurdly … of despair in preparation for throwing me a killer surprise party. Well done, Fates. I am incredibly lucky to have …
Harvard Art Museums Now Admission-Free
… this morning that all visitors will be admitted free of admission charges, effective immediately. Until this change, adults were charged $20 for access to the collections, and those over 65 years, $18. To be sure, … to the Princeton University Art Museum.) It comes as no surprise that Bacow would demonstrate his support for the arts …
“We All Can Do Better”
… “Somewhat more than half” the students investigated for academic misconduct on a … were “required…to withdraw from the College for a period of time,” according to a message to faculty, staff, and students e-mailed by Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith on February …
Issue: March-April 2013
A Look at Institutional Ethics
… An executive from General Electric once told Barbara Toffler, a partner in Arthur Andersen & Company who has … led to a huge gap between companies' mission statements and their day-to-day practices. "I haven't yet seen a company … teach a philosopher? Given the ethical dilemmas that can arise in the workplace and in society, professionals need the …
University People
… Overseers’ Leaders Scott A. Abell ’72, past president of the Harvard Alumni Association, has been elected president of the Board of Overseers for 2017-2018, and Tracy P. …
Issue: July-August 2017
India's Dropping Wind-Power Potential
… In the latest climate-change catch-22 , the wind-power … Northern Hemisphere’s middle latitudes, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, are characterized by strong winds driven by …
Harvard Buildings Evacuated after Explosives Threat
… A report of explosives sent to the Harvard University Police Department and others by … classroom buildings were postponed, and the residents of Thayer Hall, a freshman dormitory in Harvard Yard, were …
Veterans Day Salute
… President Drew Faust and General George W. Casey Jr., Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, spoke, Harvard honored its military veterans …
Issue: January-February 2010
News Briefs
… Admissions Litigation As the University and Students for Fair Admissions—the litigant … 15 (after this issue went to press), the U.S. Department of Justice weighed in, opposing the University’s position. In a statement of interest, the department, which has been challenging …
Issue: November-December 2018
How Should Harvard Teach Disagreement?
… It should come as no surprise that a conference about disagreement began with a disagreement. President Alan M. Garber opened the thirteenth annual Harvard Initiative for Learning and … focus has always been on innovation.” But during Kemper professor of history Jill Lepore ’s opening presentation (“a …
Holy Cow
… " Tradition holds ,” says Harvey Cox, “that the Hollis professor of divinity shall have the privilege of grazing his cow in …
Issue: September-October 2009