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Good Times at Frank's
… steak ($44) and side orders that would feed multitudes of the famished, plus a bottle of red with a high opinion of itself, and you might not …
Issue: March-April 2006
Navigating Changing Careers
… To find an era of upheaval in the nature of work comparable to the scale and impact of that underway …
A Gene Therapy Breakthrough
… As a young man, Sharif Tabebordbar remembers seeing his father struggling to play soccer, and then losing the ability … for his father’s illness. Now, an interdisciplinary team of Harvard students assembled by Tabebordbar and based in the lab of Pardis Sabeti at the Broad Institute of Harvard and …
“O” for Opportunity
… Imagine, against all the evidence, that the Supreme Court, which is hearing … (SFFA) has brought against Harvard and the University of North Carolina , rules for the defendant institutions (as … 1978 Bakke decision and upheld ever since (holistic review of candidates, including permissible consideration of racial …
Issue: November-December 2022
Puzzles
… A contributing editor of this magazine, John de Cuevas ’52, is an inveterate perpetrator of puzzles with cryptic clues, and 35 of his creations appeared in these pages between 1986 and 1998. They are now newly …
Issue: November-December 2005
Potholes, Pensions, and Politics
… In January , the newly elected mayor of Houston, Sylvester Turner, J.D. … stomach to implement reforms to fix Houston’s financial crises. But he has moved surprisingly fast since moving into …
Issue: May-June 2016
Hoops: "Inadvertent" Violation
… The Ivy League has announced that Harvard will self-impose … after acknowledging an inadvertent "secondary" violation of the NCAA's policies of recruitment of prospective athletes. Three years ago, …
Televangelists on Tape
… By sending his personal archive —300 boxes full of videotapes and correspondence—to Harvard’s library this summer, Bishop Carlton Pearson says he is “taking the old me and putting it in the mausoleum.” He hopes that … all over the world.” As his former self, Pearson was one of the most prominent African-American Pentecostal …
Final-club Finality
… William F. Lee on December 5 brought an end to 19 months of formal faculty debate about and challenges to the College’s sanctions on undergraduate membership in … fraternities, and sororities). At the monthly Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting that afternoon, Faust …
Issue: March-April 2018
Second in Command
… Lawrence H. Summers emphasized that efforts to bring the University community together intellectually and … and scientific research and education, would be two themes of his administration. Matching action to agenda, on October 29 he announced the appointment of Steven E. Hyman, M.D. '80, as provost, Harvard's …
Issue: January-February 2002
Toward Precision Medicine
… “radical transformations” in medicine in coming decades, the dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS) has authorized a full-scale … For example, type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease, arises spontaneously, typically in children and young adults. …
Issue: May-June 2015
Alumni Sargent and Sims Share Nobel Prize in Economics
… The 2011 Nobel Prize in economics has been awarded to Thomas … at the Hoover Institution, based at Stanford, and Berkley professor of economics and business at New York University, … affected by unanticipated events. The price of oil rises unexpectedly, the central bank sets an interest rate …
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 …
Renewing Civic Education
… this sound even vaguely like what is now understood to be the purpose of higher education? Wisdom, and knowledge, as well as … to be spread across the curriculum. Natural opportunities arise everywhere. Every academic, professional, or vocational …
Ellen Condliffe Lagemann , Harry R. Lewis
Issue: March-April 2012
Harvard 25-Penn 23 (Triple Overtime)
… to darkness on Saturday at Harvard Stadium when the Crimson football team lined up in the third overtime with a share of the Ivy League title in its hands. Harvard had tried to … the Crimson not only a victory, but also clinch a share of the Ivy League title. Now for something special—something …