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Joy of Jades
… This spearhead of nephrite jade set in a bronze socket embellished with turquoise, shown actual size, was crafted circa the thirteenth to the twelfth century B.C. Photograph courtesy of the Harvard University Art Museums, copyright © 2003 …
Issue: November-December 2003
The Politics of Climate Change Legislation
… Flawed strategy on the part of environmentalists doomed legislative attempts to … during President Obama’s first term, argued Thomas professor of government and sociology Theda Skocpol at a …
“The Future We Shape Is Up to Us”
… In an opening address inaugurating the new academic year, President Drew Faust encouraged the … that lie ahead—and the other on the fiscal realities of a still-weakened economy. “Harvard is about … and the foundations of our nation’s research enterprise.” As technology evolves and gives rise to new …
The World-Wise JFK
… Does the world need a new life of John F. Kennedy ’40, LL.D.’56? Yes, if the author is Fredrik Logevall, Belfer professor of international affairs and professor of history. …
Issue: January-February 2021
Bill R. Appleton
… for a Ph.D. in solid state physics at Rutgers and a tour of duty at the nearby Bell Laboratories, in 1967 Bill R. Appleton … By this spring, when he retired from Oak Ridge--the enterprise employs 5,000 people, one-third of them degreed …
The Paintings Behind the Books in the Harvard Botanical Museum
… When Richard Evans Schultes ’37, Ph.D. ’41 became director of the Botanical Museum of Harvard University in 1967, he could … quotation in which it is mentioned. The collection comprised 73 paintings of 182 plants, botanically accurate and …
Exposed
… your knowledge, a high-resolution camera took a photograph of your hand, capturing your fingerprints. You might be upset. Or—if you were visiting Disneyland, where they already make an image of your fingerprint to save you … could collect; it didn’t apply to commercial enterprises like credit-card companies. No one imagined today’s …
Issue: September-October 2009
Kevin Beasley at the ICA/Boston
… Artist Kevin Beasley’s sculptures resonate with what’s not there. He typically uses found objects, from Air Jordans and … at the Institute for Contemporary Art/Boston, where 16 of Beasley’s works are on display through August 26. Among … Virginia-born Beasley is a relatively young artist on the rise. He holds fine-art degrees from the College for …
Issue: July-August 2018
A Collage of Colleges
… “Why should all of the creative and liberating ideas for liberal education be … arts colleges?” That is the question, posed by Plummer professor of Christian morals Peter J. Gomes, with which the …
Issue: January-February 2006
Pallas Chou ’23, Senior English Address
… ’23 Senior English Address I love enzymes. Tiny molecular machines, too small to be seen by the naked eye, they’re in each of our cells, performing important life functions like …
AI Anxiety
… is successful, and three areas for potential improvement.” The machine spat out an answer instantly, and as I watched … 10 seconds. Not all the advice was useful, but as a semi-professional writer and editor, I felt reasonably confident … this paper was years old, and I used AI to revise it out of curiosity. I abide by the Harvard honor code, and all the …
Issue: March-April 2025
A Scatter of Acorns
… can break your heart. An exquisitely detailed new example of the genre, The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball (Pantheon, $24.95), by …
Issue: May-June 2008
The Senior Members
… The oldest graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe present on Commencement day were Rose Downes Arnold ’36, 90, of Arlington, Massachusetts, and George Barner ’29, Ed. ’32, … L ’33, 101, of Kennebunk, Maine. Both were recognized at the afternoon ceremony by HAA president Teresita …
Issue: July-August 2010
Walls of Power
… Following the “decisive moment” tradition of Henri … Wing to consider the invasive or even exploitative nature of the photograph, with this upshot: “I stopped taking …
Issue: January-February 2007
Bards of America
… , when Alison Carey ’82 and Bill Rauch ’84 were traveling the country with Cornerstone Theater Company, the ensemble … to produce classic plays adapted to the particularities of their communities. In town after town, a similar thing … director, proposed the project a decade ago, to comprise 37 plays in total—the same number in Shakespeare’s …
Issue: September-October 2017