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How U.S. Companies Stole American Jobs
… like General Motors and Chase Manhattan Bank hired their own janitors and clerical staff, not just top executives and engineers. Today, low-skilled jobs are often outsourced, with effects that are rippling across the … labor laws are written,” Katz explains, “a lot of issues…arise from the use of freelancers and contractors.” He cites …
Issue: July-August 2017
A Gendered Schedule
… As the Princeton men’s basketball team pulled away from Penn in overtime of the Ivy League tournament semifinals last March, a Tigers … to zero “Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick.” His angst was a microcosm of the excitement swelling through the Palestra that …
“A Profession Based on Honor and Trust”
… In the past decade, President Drew Faust has honored 74 Harvard students as they took their oaths of office during Commencement week’s annual Reserve Officers’ …
Crimson Campaign Consultants
… Like many Harvard students in their senior spring, Nathán Goldberg ’18 and William Long … about how effectively harnessing data could change the fate of a campaign. Now, Goldberg and Long are running major … Bluebonnet further, and said he was hopeful the enterprise could continue benefiting from the school’s …
“Colorful Realm” Makes It Big
… Bird-and-Flower Paintings by Itō Jakuchū (1716–1800) was the seventh most-visited show in the National Gallery of Art's history, as measured by the number of visitors per day. The exhibit, which closed April 29 , …
Six Harvard Students Win Rhodes Scholarships
… The Rhodes Trust has announced that five Harvard seniors … Scholarships this fall. Among them, one is vice president of the Harvard Islamic Society and co-founder of the Ivy League Muslim Council, a second is pursuing …
Exceeding Expectations
… This year marks the 150th anniversary of football at Harvard. (Because the … was canceled due to COVID, this is the 149th season of play.) But entering the 2023 season, the outlook for the …
Issue: November-December 2023
Ubu Abounds
… February, is a cleverly adapted, punk-art cabaret version of Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi. The 1896 play famously caused a riot in Paris on its opening … provoked much more than a sensation. His satirical tale of Ma and Pa Ubu’s savage quest for the Polish throne, …
Issue: January-February 2016
Animal Research Reforms
… During the past half-century, experiments at Harvard Medical … Primate Research Center (NEPRC) have yielded a long list of scientific accomplishments, including insights into … research and focused instead on lapses in the care of NEPRC’s more than 2,000 monkeys. In June 2010, a …
Issue: May-June 2012
Hurting Hands
… In the computer laboratories of the Science Center, where I … with RSI varies as much as the range of conditions it comprises. Initial symptoms include pain or weakness in the …
Bicoastal Poet, Beat Reporter
… August Kleinzahler will be the poet, and Linda Greenhouse the orator, at the Phi Beta … Literary (PBK) Exercises—the first formal community event of Commencement week, and in many respects the intellectual core of the festivities for College seniors and their families. …
Ski All About It
… Natural snow and 80 miles of groomed trails (without set tracks) run between and … reopen in January 2015). Guided or self-guided trips are offered, along with dorm-style bunks or private cabins, wood … AMC also opens three of its New Hampshire huts in the White Mountains during the winter: Lonesome Lake, Carter …
Issue: November-December 2013
Commencement Day 2009
… The morning Commencement exercises featured three … Latin Salutatory, Aetates Hominis Harvardiani ["The Ages of Man at Harvard University"] , delivered by Paul Thomas … Gazette article .) At the afternoon's annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association, President Drew Faust …
Shaina Taub Shares Suffragists in Song
… Shaina Taub—that she is a gravitational force “around whom others cluster like filings to a magnet”—came powerfully to … held the stage for nearly three hours. As part of a celebration for the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in …
”Like Something Christenberry Pictured”
… Beta Kappa poet, Guggenheim Fellow, MacArthur Fellow, and professor of English at Brown University, reads one of her works. Listen to the live audio recording. …