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Perseus in 3-D
… Sitting at home at your computer, you--the armchair traveler--can now tour a region of the Perseus molecular cloud, a dense patch of interstellar medium located 700 light-years from Earth …
Issue: May-June 2009
Jeremy Lin to Have Surgery
… The New York Knicks’ standout point guard Jeremy Lin ’10—who … arthroscopic surgery and miss at least the next six weeks of the season. Lin has a small, chronic meniscus tear in … cutting; he might be able to rejoin the Knicks for the playoffs, assuming the New York team’s regular-season record …
Postseason, Interrupted
… On Christmas Eve , the Harvard men’s basketball team dined at Roy’s, in … Auburn 69-51 in the semifinals. Now, they had a day off before facing Oklahoma—then the third-ranked team in the … ’76, a former Harvard basketball player and former mayor of Honolulu, hosted the gathering. “People from Harvard,” he …
Issue: May-June 2016
Sexual Harassment and Assault Reports Increase in 2018
… Disclosures of potential sexual and gender-based harassment increased by … and formal complaints increased by 7 percent, according to the joint report of the University Title IX Office and Office for Dispute …
Capitalism Campaign
… September 21 formally launched its first capital campaign. The timing might not seem propitious: the aftermath of the late 1990s stock-market bubble, recession, and … students of management and leadership within private enterprises. They lend an extra urgency to the school's work. The …
Issue: November-December 2002
Vegan Hedonism
… One sentence —one word, really—in the book Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer changed John … someone who wouldn’t eat or wear animal products. The son of a small-town Pennsylvania butcher, Schlimm, who grew up … a cookbook author? Schlimm explains that he’s the son of two fantastic cooks as well as a member of the Straub …
Issue: November-December 2012
Baccalaureate Address 2023
… Welcome to the Class of 2023—and welcome to soon-to-be graduates of Harvard College. Give yourself a round of applause. … know that it actually dates back, at least at Harvard, to the 17th century. And the baccalaureate address, which I’m …
President Will No Longer Chair Faculty Meetings
… At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on March 7, … used his “President’s Business” time to introduce a surprise change in a hallowed tradition. Saying that he wanted to address “the role of the president in chairing these meetings,” he told the …
“For Exceptional Service…”
… Six alumni were recognized with HAA Awards (during the Harvard Alumni Association board of directors’ fall meeting), for their outstanding service to the University. Danguole Spakevicius Altman ’81 of Houston, a member of her class’s thirty-fifth-reunion …
Issue: September-October 2018
Gabby Thomas ’19 Wins Olympic Trials, Heads to Tokyo
… Gabby Thomas ’19 made history on Saturday, becoming the second-fastest woman ever in the women’s 200 meters and clinching a spot at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Her time of 21.61 seconds was the best since 1988, when Florence … she broke through. She set a personal best in both rounds of qualifying before a final race that stunned even herself. …
Congo Report
… The charismatic, maverick field anthropologist Patrick Tracy … New York artist Anne Eisner, who was seduced by his tales of a primitive people living in an exquisite tropical … career in Manhattan to join him at Camp Putnam—a sort of dude ranch with a guesthouse on the Epulu River at the …
Issue: September-October 2005
Cambridge 02138
… Impacts Kudos to Elizabeth Gudrais for her article on Matthew Desmond and the victims of eviction ( “Disrupted Lives,” January-February, page 38). … of increasing rents, support for legal aid has fallen , not risen. One reason is that a major source of funding for …
Issue: March-April 2014
Home Among Strangers
… There is a familiar rapture that engulfs the beginning of an … were largely seniors, living on and around campus—I was surprised by the extent to which pre-pandemic norms were in …
Laughter and Lyrics—Legally
… a call from us if we had an idea,” says Laurence O’Keefe. “Of course, it might be a short call.” “Yeah,” says Nell … an opera about Stalin.’ ‘Well...thanks, Larry and Nell!’ ” They both laugh. Partners in art and life (married in 2001) … top criterion: “Try to start a song with a bang or a surprise and then end with a bang or a surprise.” Producers can …
Issue: September-October 2014
Faculty Meeting, Part 2
… The meeting continued the faculty meeting of February 15, … tenor of last Tuesday's faculty meeting caught me by surprise. A colleague who studies political dissent wondered …