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Another Competitive Overseers’ Election Takes Shape
… With the announcement today of the Harvard Alumni Association … (HAA) nominating committee’s candidates for the Board of Overseers, a second consecutive, competitive campaign for … ’11, vice president, head of strategy and group enterprises, MTV Entertainment Group. Brooklyn, N.Y. • Benjamin …
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
Making Memories
… In the early 1960s, Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers … laureates) David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel began a series of landmark experiments investigating the effects of experience on the brain. In one trial, the pair closed a …
Issue: September-October 2010
Celebrating Senior Alumni
… Rhoda Lesser Diamond ’42, of Martha’s Vineyard, and Leon Starr ’40, of Rye, New York, were the oldest Harvard and Radcliffe alumni present on …
Issue: July-August 2017
Philogynist (I)
… He has run for political office, been a professor, published seven books, modeled, and acted in dozens … an autobiography—and is working on a movie deal to further develop the screenplay that won him the Neptune Award …
Issue: September-October 2003
Jeffrey Epstein’s Extensive Harvard Reach
… The Harvard General Counsel’s office, charged last September … reportedly by suicide, while facing numerous new charges of sex trafficking of minors. The report, conveyed to Bacow …
Issue: July-August 2020
A Victorious Vessel
… Boston’s iconic USS Constitution, a 1790s warship that is the oldest active-duty boat in the world, is often taken for granted. But a recent stroll through the USS … American merchant vessels and grew in fame during the War of 1812 when it won three marquee battles against England. …
Issue: September-October 2024
Helping Hands
… “I got punched in the head an hour ago,” says Victor A. Lopez-Carmen, M.D. ’24 … May 11, when he and 29 other novice fighters spar in front of 2,000 people at Boston’s MGM Music Hall to raise money … is Yaqui on his mother’s side and an enrolled member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe on his father’s side—is …
Issue: May-June 2023
Interim Accomplishments
… in February 2006, interim president Derek Bok told a group of Harvard administrators last October, he found himself in the position of Rip van Winkle. Having been president from … to realize them. Bok said he was “very pleasantly surprised” by the quality of candidates for tenured …
Issue: July-August 2007
Football: Harvard 45, Yale 7
… With the Ivy League championship in hand, Harvard’s high-scoring football team topped off a 9-1 season by demolishing Yale, 45-7, at Yale Bowl on … five straight against Yale, and has been victorious in 10 of the teams’ last 11 meetings. After a Yale scoring drive …
Vegan-friendly Holiday Party Recipes
… holiday party recipes from cookbook author John Schlimm, profiled in our November-December issue : Italian Herb … surrounded by good friends and laughter, and topped with these Italian-inspired focaccia burgers. Here, fresh … sundried tomatoes, and other ingredients belt out an opera of flavors we can all sink our teeth into. Ingredients: 1 …
$7 Billion, and Counting
… The academic year began, promisingly, with the announcement … gifts and pledges totaling “more than $7 billion” as of this past June 30, the end of fiscal year 2016. In nominal terms, not adjusted for …
Issue: November-December 2016
Blockheads
… to shake with passers-by." Benjamin Franklin’s father thought of sending his boy to Harvard to study for the ministry, but decided that would be a waste of money because of Benjamin’s “cheeky impertinence, …
Issue: January-February 2006
Football: Harvard 34, Columbia 0
… Say this for Columbia football: the players may lose game after game, but they keep … has lost every game this season, has been shut out in two of its last three games, and has been outscored, 330-57. Its leading ground-gainer has a bad ankle, and five of its offensive starters are freshmen. With a league record …
“We’re Better Than That!”
… Early in the fourth quarter of last Friday’s women’s basketball game against Brown, the Bears ripped off six unanswered points, so Delaney-Smith Head Coach …