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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
The Caribbean Zola
… In the spring of 2012 , Brown University hosted an … coop.” Instead of demolishing tenements to build high-rise public housing “for the 5 percent, while kicking the … enlightened social and economic policies will give rise to good institutions. Both camps recognize, of course, …
Issue: November-December 2014
A Wheel of Fortune, a Three-Legged Chair, and a New View of the Charles River
… Scroll down for videos of the student speeches. Graduating seniors began Commencement … the church's acting minister, culled the "Top Ten Pieces of Advice" from the many senior chapel talks given over the …
Students of Virginity
… story on a Harvard student group founded on the principle of sexual abstinence. The group's … for women's rights." She casts her choice as a marker of strength—resisting temptation and cultural …
The Voices from On High
… public-address announcer for home football games, and in the intervening 73 years, the position has turned over but … Cleary '56 and John Veneziano, then Harvard's directors of athletics and sports information, respectively, who had … penchant for preparation, and also gets an occasional rise out of the crowd, as when he first announced a penalty …
Issue: September-October 2003
Alumni Olympic Rowers... and Facebook Litigants
… Two members of the 2008 U.S. men's Olympic rowing team hold Harvard … degrees: Cameron Winklevoss ’04 and Tyler Winklevoss ’04. They happen to be identical twins. The Boston Sunday Globe … If you've heard their names before, it's probably because of their lawsuit against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ’06. …
College: The Path to Opportunity and Prosperity
… events, was scheduled this morning to deliver an address on the value of higher education. The speech is part of a week-long focus … of living: Across the country, college costs…continue to rise as average wages for low- and middle-income families …
Claudine Gay Named Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
… S. Bacow announced this morning that Claudine Gay—Cowett professor of government and of African and African American studies, and dean of social science within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS)—will become dean of …
Engineer of Fictions
… When Thomas McMahon, McKay professor of applied mechanics and professor of biology, died … unexpectedly of heart failure on Valentine's Day, 1999, the 55-year-old faculty member left behind an unusually … the minutiae of their imagined worlds, it's somehow no surprise that, according to his daughter Elizabeth, he was able …
Issue: July-August 2004
Focusing on the Tea Party
… As New Hampshire voters made ready to cast their ballots in 2012’s first presidential primary, the New York Times published a review of The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism … work, The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment , was nominated for the …
To Catch a Crawdad
… spent frantically watching lecture videos late into the night, I instead found myself driving a 16-foot, … how many basic assumptions were undermined. I felt a profound connection with the protagonist of Disney’s The … is silvery and softly reflective, like the starship Enterprise. The buds, fuzzy and hard, emerge while the rest of the …
Issue: September-October 2020
Fictions of Science
… November, 1997, a curious report emerged from physicists at the California Institute of Technology, who claimed that certain subatomic particles … in science, a normal part of the overall enterprise that even contributes to its progress. "The very act of …
The Public’s “Hard Problems”
… A year ago, prominent social scientists gathered at Harvard to highlight what they saw as the most … or both, these 12 eminent thinkers formulated a list of nearly three dozen “hard problems in the social … voting mix. The level of public interest and attention surprised even the organizers. The project’s website attracted …
Issue: May-June 2011
Music as Predictor of Social Change
… Nearly 40 years after the publication of his 1977 book Noise: The Political … melds with consumption,” has been borne out by the rise of social media and digital music. Building on that …
Endowments: The Specter of Taxation
… fellow university leaders successfully persuaded members of Congress to sustain federal funding for scientific research—in opposition to the Trump administration’s budget outline—they now find the … from the endowment to support the academic enterprise: $1.8 billion, or 36 percent of Harvard’s revenue for …