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Brevia
… 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
Wanted: Corporation Members, Provost
… In the wake of the Harvard Corporation’s early December decision to … with the Corporation’s earlier steps to include members of the Board of Overseers in its review of its governance …
Issue: March-April 2011
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 …
Harvard Medical School Launches HMX
… Harvard Medical School (HMS) has joined the growing number of academic institutions that offer coursework online. Their series, HMX, is now open to …
Master Watercolorists
… rarely leave climate-controlled museum storage vaults. Often, they are so delicately composed that what’s omitted can make the most dramatic visual impact, as in the case of John Singer Sargent’s 1917 Muddy Alligators . The famous …
Issue: July-August 2023
How Same-Sex Marriage Came to Be
… ago, every state criminalized homosexual sex, and even the American Civil Liberties Union did not object. The … military. Police routinely raided gay bars. Only a handful of gay-rights organizations existed, and their membership … was sparse. Most Americans would have considered the idea of same-sex marriage facetious. Today, opinion polls …
Issue: March-April 2013
Five Honored with Harvard Medal
… On Commencement Day , five people received the Harvard Alumni Association's Harvard Medal, awarded … ’73, is the senior philanthropic advisor at Harvard in the Office of Alumni Affairs and Development. He has guided hundreds of …
Shawn's “Marie and Bruce” Opens
… A revival of Wallace Shawn's 1979 play Marie and Bruce opened in New York at the Acorn Theater on Theater Row, staged by The New Group, on April 5. A Harvard Magazine profile of Shawn took note of the production, then in …
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
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
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
Yearning to Escape
… James Laughlin ’36, an heir of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation of Pittsburgh, founded the avant-garde publishing house New …
Issue: November-December 2014
Anthologizing as a Radical Act
… "Works of art that we encounter aren't raw--they're cooked," says Stephen Greenblatt. "I'm interested in … television shows, of elaborate social, collaborative enterprises--they're not the product of an artist in a garret …
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