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… Elmendorf, Ph.D. ’89, who concluded his service as director of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) last March, has … social and environmental threats, poverty and humanitarian crises, and failing health systems), and a Fenway Park …
Issue: September-October 2015
Born to Rest
… Daniel Lieberman has spent much of his professional career exploring how natural selection shaped humans into one of the best endurance athletes on the planet. Now he is …
Issue: September-October 2016
Congratulations Are in Order
… Six alumni received the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Awards—for their … activities for the University—during the fall meeting of the HAA’s board of directors. Thomas E. “Ted” Blamey, M.B.A. ’70, of Sydney, …
Issue: November-December 2015
Cambridge 02138
… We Move?” by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, July-August, page 42). The key words here are “efficiently” and “free.” A large … function without similarly free horizontal transportation? Of course there is no free lunch, and the vertical … users only because it is paid for by the tenants as part of their rent. Similarly, the city’s horizontal …
Issue: September-October 2015
Are All Calories Equal?
… covers, podcasts, and books release an endless flood of diet advice, the average person finds it difficult at best to know how to find a sustainable method of weight loss. The latest scientific debate in the world of …
Issue: May-June 2016
A Succinct Credo
… Squash aficionados—and Harvard has nurtured many of them, at first under legendary coach Harry Cowles—will find deeply satisfying and often Crimson-colored the book Squash: A History of the …
Issue: January-February 2004
Adams House Advances
… project architect from Beyer Blinder Belle (BBB), reviewed the plans drawn to date for the three-phase renewal of the 450-student residence, beginning this summer (when … design and construction challenges Adams presents: It comprises six separate structures—dating from 1760 (Apthorp …
Who Are You, Anyway?
… from Harvard. I shrieked and performed an atavistic dance of sibling glee among the pizza boxes and Diet Coke cans in my Dunster House … during my senior year. Charlotte and I are the older half of a family of four girls. Soon our sister Sylvia, age 18, …
Harvard 28, Yale 21
… Scoring 21 points in the second half, the football team came from behind to … rushing, and led 14-7 at the break. But an 86-yard runback of the second-half kickoff by senior Marco Iannuzzi tied the score and changed the …
Harvard Alumni Association Honorands
… Six alumni have been recognized for their outstanding service to the University. Lewis “Lew” Auerbach ’63, A.M. ’64, of Ottawa, Canada, has served the Harvard Club of Ottawa for 40 years. As president, he increased …
Issue: November-December 2024
Bulfinch Magic
… Hall 188 years ago. He caused to be built a staircase of heavy granite, tons of it, that would float in space, supported (presumably) by its own interlocking steps. In fact, nobody knows how the stairs (pictured below) are suspended. And though …
Harvard 31, Cornell 17
… Misfiring for two and a half periods, Harvard’s offense put up 24 points in a late-game outburst and defeated Cornell, 31-17, at the Stadium on Saturday. Against an inexperienced and … Big Red squad, Harvard netted 505 yards in total offense and gained 314 yards rushing, slightly bettering its …
Open for Business
… Before telegrams became scarce, the Japanese artist On Kawara would send them with the … friends received them gratefully, chiefly for the delight of knowing he really was STILL ALIVE and only secondarily, I … value as contributions to a conceptual project. I think of Kawaras telegrams and their threadbare pleas for …
Issue: November-December 2006
“We Only Have One Planet”
… General Ban Ki-moon, M.P.A. ’84, had harsh words for the world’s leaders during an address to Harvard Kennedy … for—and urged the audience toward a “global citizenship” of compassion and justice and defense of freedom. He spoke sharply against the war in Ukraine, now …
Chapter & Verse
… Helen Snider hopes someone can provide all the verses to a song dating at least to 1907 that begins, … or said, "The well-educated Englishman is the noblest work of God." Emily DeHuff has heard that the sentence "The … welcome a citation for the comment "Wagner is the Puccini of music," which he has heard attributed to Igor Stravinsky. …
Issue: May-June 2002