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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. …
Aid and Tuition Head Higher
… Echoing the enhancement in financial aid implemented in the fall of 1998, the College has increased its undergraduate aid … term bill--tuition, room and board, and fees--will rise 3.5 percent, or $1,159, to $34,269 (up 55 percent from …
The Enigmatic Mr. Putin
… Who is Mr. Putin?” The question reverberated in world capitals when Boris … Vladimirovich Putin as his choice for prime minister of Russia and as his heir when a presidential election … that were spectacularly on display in two successive crises late in his second term: the financial emergency of …
Issue: May-June 2007
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 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
Sources of Funding
… Endowment income distributed for operations makes up the largest share of Harvard’s revenue: 31 percent in the fiscal year ended … the individual schools’ finances vary depending on the size of their endowments (the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, FAS, …
Issue: January-February 2005
Yesterday's News
… 1919 Alice Hamilton is appointed assistant professor of industrial medicine, becoming the first woman to hold a professorial position at the … see each other." 1984 Computer-consciousness is on the rise throughout the University. The Business School has …
Issue: March-April 2004
Broadsheet Coffee Roasters
… Figuring that “day-trading my stock portfolio was not the best use of my time,” former banker Aaron MacDougall ’94 chose … brewing, and roasting. “Starbucks uses super-automatic machines; they just press a button and out it comes. They …
Issue: March-April 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
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 …
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
Theresa Betancourt: Images from India
… articles, and relationship building, Harvard School of Public Health professor Theresa Betancourt — profiled in our November-December issue … and daughters of the migrant workers who build India’s high-rise offices and dwellings. … Images of the professor’s …
Issue: November-December 2012
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
Ahead of His Time
… 1855, LL.D. 1882, left a huge mark on Boston (he founded the symphony) and Harvard (he joined the Corporation in … steps into Allston. He also organized the purchase of the downtown site for the Medical School. In 1899, Higginson donated $150,000 for construction of the Harvard Union, a center intended to welcome all in a …
Issue: November-December 2022
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