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Thoughts on an Obama Win, or Loss
… Writing in Sunday's Washington Post , Klein professor of law Randall Kennedy argues that Barack Obama's nomination … candidate is a milestone in itself—it "has opened the public mind to the idea of a black president and made …
Shirin Ebadi Shares Her Experience, and a Hug
… “There is a price for everything,” Iranian human-rights … ago, Ebadi was the country’s first female judge—on Bench 24 of Tehran’s city court—but after the 1979 revolution, she … political prisoners, women, children, and the families of murdered students and dissidents. She stayed in Iran, …
Playing Together, Staying Together
… Terrace, which opened in 1964, as a modern neighborhood. The quadrangles offer plenty of outdoor spaces, some with views of the Charles River, for …
Issue: July-August 2014
Esmeralda Santiago Overcomes Stroke to Publish Epic Novel
… Staring in disbelief at the lines of gibberish she’d just written, Esmeralda … told the Times. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the eldest of 11 children, Santiago is the New York-based author of …
Forrest Gander and Theda Skocpol at Phi Beta Kappa Exercises
… this celebration back,” said Howard Georgi, Mallinckrodt professor of physics, welcoming the audience at Sanders Theatre to the 230 th Phi Beta …
Musical Activist
… Mainstream pop culture churns out plenty of rockers and rappers, but Derrick N. Ashong ’97, G ’08, is plugged into a different station. Leader of the pan-African hip-hop band Soulfège and zealous …
Issue: July-August 2006
Hunting a Hardy Hemlock
… Hunting a Hardy Hemlock Toward the end of the first day of the 2017 NACPEC expedition to Sichuan, the collectors saw …
Issue: January-February 2018
Recruiting Redux
… The Supreme Court is set to consider how military recruiting … insistence on nondiscrimination, including on the basis of sexual orientation. The conflicting policies became … that did not comply. Harvard receives about $500 million of such revenue annually. In 2003, a majority of HLS …
Issue: July-August 2005
Clinton Campaigners Reflect on a Lost Election
… The realization that Hillary Clinton was going to lose hit … ’17 had traveled to help get out the vote in the final days of the campaign, people watched the results in what he … end up in the White House. But there were also pleasant surprises along the way, encouraging the team to think the …
Frank Gehry to Receive Arts Medal
… Architect Frank Gehry , Ds ’57, Ar.D. ’00, creator of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and MIT’s Stata Center, will receive the Harvard Arts Medal at the opening event of the annual Arts First festival on April 28. The event’s …
Club and Alumni Interest Group Awards
… The HAA Clubs and SIGs Awards recognize individual and … contributions to their Harvard communities. Recipients of this year’s Outstanding Alumni Leadership Award are Alice … Rume Aggreh, LL.M. ’85, and Veronica Wong ’88. Abarbanel, of the Radcliffe Club of San Francisco, has served as the …
Issue: November-December 2023
Martha Whitehead Appointed Harvard Librarian
… Martha Whitehead , librarian of Queen’s University in Ontario since 2011 and vice provost there since 2014, has been appointed Harvard University … the Harvard Library , and Larsen librarian for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective in June. She succeeds Sarah …
Also Heard
… last thing that I learned at Harvard Business School, and the thing that may be most important to the people here today, is to take personal risks.… Most of you are like me—you leave here broke, completely … to my first job at GE. But I was rich from the standpoint of having a great platform on which to take personal and …
Issue: July-August 2005
Probing Policing
… In the wake of complaints about interactions between the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) and black members of the community, President Drew Faust in late August …
Issue: November-December 2008
Listen Up
… On a clear day last March movers hoisted the Steinway & Sons concert grand piano out of a second-story window at Groton’s Kalliroscope Gallery … for 36 years, the precarious leave-taking felt especially profound. “It was very moving,” he recently recalled. “All the …
Issue: September-October 2022