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Up, Up, and Over!
… irrational act 20 or 30 times a day in practice and, at the 2012 NCAA Championships in Des Moines, to clear a bar … the pole and launch your leap, “you get every doubt out of your head, and just go for it,” he explains. “You … the bar and ignore any other feelings.” Assistant coach of track and field Brenner Abbott says, “Nico is very gifted …
Issue: May-June 2013
Dolores Huerta to Receive Radcliffe Medal
… Dolores Huerta , the labor and civil-rights activist who co-founded the … immigrant farm workers; alongside Cesar Chavez, she was one of the leaders of the Delano grape strike, a five-year labor strike and …
Siren Song
… October 31 , 2000, 4 p.m. I've just had one of those brief but potent conversations in which a casual comment by someone I scarcely know hits me with the force of revelation. I was on the phone with an editor at a …
Issue: September-October 2001
Foreign Service
… Bell, Miguel Palos, Robert Yarrish, and (below) Graham Hoffman Courtesy of Miguel Palos Courtesy of Graham Hoffman A navy reservist … Arifjan, Kuwait, supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom with the Expeditionary Medical Force, Fleet Hospital Dallas. As I …
Issue: July-August 2005
Greener Pastures
… The forms taken by human shelters are changing as architects … more compactly, and focus attention on the essential beauty of the natural world. This article appears in two parts; … Joni Mitchell could sing about what’s happened on 113 acres of idyllic farmland just outside Peterborough, New …
Issue: July-August 2010
Harvard's Hillary Look-alike
… Professional actress Heidi Dallin ’85 has been getting lots of work lately, thanks to her marked resemblance to Hillary Clinton. When the Clintons entered the White House, Dallin couldn't escape …
Harvard Calendar
… SPECIAL. The thirty-second annual ice skating exhibition An Evening … . NATURE. The Arnold Arboretum' s annual fall plant sale (offering rare specimens, native flora, and discussions with … sponsors free observatory nights on the third Thursday of every month. For information, call 617-495-7461. MUSIC. …
Issue: September-October 2001
Margaret Marshall: Judiciary’s Impartiality Is Endangered
… ’78, grew up in Newcastle, South Africa, during a time when the government controlled the courts and judges were … the Radcliffe Medal, the first female Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court stressed the critical importance of fair and impartial courts in the American legal system. …
Over 91-Acre Allston Purchase, a Fresh Political Maelstrom
… When Harvard purchased land from the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (MTA) in 2000, it was … for 48 acres. Now Harvard has acquired an adjacent parcel of 91 acres for $75 million, bringing the University's total … real-estate market but also the heavily encumbered nature of the property, which is split by the turnpike itself and …
Issue: July-August 2003
Radioactive Relic
… For several decades, Harvard physics professors have shared a small block of uranium with their students. It is a strange object: although the cube …
Issue: September-October 2024
“Practicing My Purpose”
… The best pop songs seem to materialize on the radio by magic: perfect crystals of feeling without seams or joints or fingerprints. For Dan … In the last two decades Wilson has written for or with many of the biggest names in pop, including Halsey, John Legend, …
Issue: September-October 2017
A Tribute to Melvin Miller
… Hundreds crowded the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on the evening of June 22, donning their finest attire and nametags that read “A friend of Mel,” to pay homage to Melvin B. Miller ’56 , who …
Veritas Values
… Prompted by the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting … in response to the "living wage" protests in the spring of 2001—the University has adopted a "Statement of Values." The statement, endorsed by the Academic Advisory …
Issue: November-December 2002
Brevia
… Astronomy agenda. The next-generation, 24.5-meter (aperture) Giant Magellan Telescope—supported by a 13-member consortium of universities and science institutions, prominently … Harvard—has been recommended for federal support as part of the U.S. Extremely Large Telescope Program. Such funding, …
Issue: January-February 2022
Science and Song
… The following tracks are posted here courtesy of Pardis … while working on her doctoral dissertation (an analysis of natural selection as seen in resistance to malaria in African populations). She would work in the lab every day for 14 to 16 hours, then come home and …
Issue: May-June 2009