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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
Striving for the Straus Cup
… Harvard Stadium, a dozen cleated undergraduates step onto the turf for a high-stakes football game. While they warm … battle between Kirkland and Quincy Houses. The winner of this matchup will earn 20 points toward the Straus Cup, … ultimate prize, it’s not why students participate. When one of Quincy’s intramural coordinators, Tim Fargiano ’24, …
Issue: July-August 2023
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 …
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. …
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
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Fiscal Norm
… The University’s fiscal year 2015, concluded last June 30 … report released in late October, mirrors the outcome of the prior year: Harvard again operated in the black, … outstripping sponsored support. The 7.4 percent rise in continuing-education and executive-programs tuition …
Issue: January-February 2016
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