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Bodies Electric
… In the depths of the Harvard Art Museums, a troupe of Buster Keatons moves jerkily across the screen. Projected … fewer laughs from the audience. When the occasional surprised burst of laughter sounds here and there, other viewers …
Comings and Goings
… Harvard clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual events, especially during the academic year. For information on club programs for the …
Issue: September-October 2008
Starting Up at Harvard
… in New York and moved back to Cambridge with thoughts of becoming an entrepreneur. Little did he know just how … start-up was going be. Jeff Behrens '89 with Clipper, the mongrel he and his wife, Lori Rutter '89, adopted from … option is to become more like MIT's long-established Enterprise Forum, a nonprofit organization that promotes new …
Football 2021: Harvard 23, Penn 7
… In its final home game of 2021, the Harvard football team employed the formula that has … riding a rock-ribbed rush defense, the rampaging running of back Aaron Shampklin, and the leg of placekicker Jonah …
Overseer and HAA Director Elections
… On March 31, the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers announced … the annual voting for new Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), ordinarily running …
Issue: July-August 2020
Harvard Triumphs at Henley
… With a stunning final sprint, the Harvard heavyweight men’s crew closed on the English … Henley Royal Regatta on July 1 by a mere foot after a race of one mile, 550 yards. Leander had led for the entire race, … world-championship medals among its oarsmen, could not hold off Harvard’s closing charge. The triumph put a capstone on …
Civic Leaders, and Myths about Undergraduate Teaching
… detailed one specific goal: “[W]e will work toward raising the resources so we can guarantee every undergraduate who wants one a public-service internship of some kind.” During nearly half of his now three-year tenure, while the world and Harvard …
Issue: July-August 2021
Supreme Court Brinkmanship
… Linda Greenhouse ’68 covered the Supreme Court for the New York Times for 30 years … court from a post at Yale, she has crafted a quick history of the year of Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to succeed Ruth Bader …
Issue: November-December 2021
A Moral Victory
… The Civil War battle of Antietam remains the most lethal day of combat for Americans in U.S. history. …
Issue: November-December 2024
Show-offs
… Once out of the chrysalis, most butterflies live for only a few days or … A thousand are on display into March at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. The collection as a whole is a research …
Re-naming Lowell House?
… As they prepared to assume the faculty deanship of the … they would relocate certain portraits—notably that of Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Harvard’s president from 1909 to …
Overseer and HAA Director Elections
… On March 31, the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers announced … the annual voting for new Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), ordinarily running …
Issue: May-June 2020
Sports Medicine Man
… At around 14, Brant Berkstresser realized he wasn’t much of an athlete. “I grew up in a large high school,” he says, … never kept Berkstresser—now Harvard’s associate director of athletics for student-athlete health and performance—away … loved it.” Growing up in State College, Pennsylvania, the home of Penn State, certainly contributed. He loved …
Issue: January-February 2020
Cambridge 02138
… cover story about Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s re-assessment of the civil rights movement (“ Both Sides Now, ” … the several hundred participants in this remarkable enterprise whom I interviewed during my research nor any of the …
Issue: March-April 2022
“A Grinding War”
… a discussion on campus Thursday evening, Marie Yovanovitch, the American ambassador to Ukraine from 2016 to 2019, … helped bring Vladimir Putin to power. “He killed thousands of people living in Chechnya….And to the best of my knowledge, the international community was quite …