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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 …
“Joyous Protest Posters”
… The lobby of Houghton Library—Harvard’s repository for rare books and manuscripts (as well as theatre and performing arts archives)—greets visitors with streaks of midnight blues, electric yellows, and blood reds. …
Green Buildings
… 1991, Rocky Mountain Institute has worked with clients like the Pentagon, Oberlin College, the White House, and the 2000 … says William Browning, a founder and principal of RMI's Green Development Services group. Take, for … Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, a program of the U.S. Green Building Council— www.usgbc.org …
Issue: January-February 2004
Steven Spielberg Named Harvard’s 2016 Commencement Speaker
… , screenwriter, and producer Steven Spielberg will be the guest speaker at Harvard’s 365th Commencement on … Ryan, a World War II drama told from the perspective of American soldiers in Europe, earned his second in that category. His 2015 film, the Cold War drama Bridge of Spies , earned his sixteenth Oscar nomination, for best …
Lost in Ideas
… When an idea keeps him up at night—nudges him awake to lie there, eyes wide and mind working—that’s when television … and producer Carlton Cuse ’81 knows it’s good. An epidemic of vampirism in New York City that, chillingly, sends the infected chasing after those they love; a reimagining of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho as an eerie, tragic …
Issue: January-February 2016
Helping Out, Abroad and at Home
… En route to the math placement exam, Annette Ghee ’83 met classmate Burt … she completed a Ph.D. in epidemiology at the University of Washington (UW) a year ago and most recently spent six … in their field, though at Harvard he studied history of science after deciding that “people are more interesting …
Issue: January-February 2008
Family Ties
… They're the people who knew you first. For years, they were … that the first decade after graduation is a time of transition for everything, including family relationships. Of course, some people have always gotten along with their …
Issue: March-April 2004
Venerable, Valuable Volumes
… With its muted hues and pine floorboards, the store resembles a medieval library with a blinking Apple … James and Devon Gray Booksellers ranges from early editions of Machiavelli’s The Prince and Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy to a book of hours, a 200-page, personal …
Issue: January-February 2008
Susan Farbstein
… “Why do some people get to make decisions about their lives, and other people don’t?” Susan Farbstein, J.D. ’04, clinical professor of law since 2008, first pondered the question after …
Issue: September-October 2024
Hand-Crafted
… in scaffolding and protective netting, Primus was reminded of how venerable some Harvard buildings are—and of how much labor went into their construction. A vivid demonstration of the latter …
Issue: November-December 2018
A Walk through History with Justice Ginsburg
… laws that have disadvantaged women and reinforced notions of men as breadwinners and women as dependents: both as an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) who argued cases … a journey through the historic cases that overturned many of those laws; the path corresponded largely with her own …
Issue: May-June 2009
Brevia
… human resources on August 2. He succeeds Marilyn Hausammann—the first person appointed to the newly created position in … had been vice president and chief human resource officer at Northwestern since 2019, following a career … and related issues before becoming chief human resources officer in 2015. Roland Fryer’s Return Professor Roland G. …
Issue: September-October 2021
Harvard Law Weighs In
… As legal education and the profession face substantial change—with law graduates’ careers developing in increasingly varied, often global, contexts—Harvard Law School (HLS) kicked off …
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Issue: January-February 2016
Chapter & Verse
… Robert Boardman seeks a source for the assertion that, if political and military leaders are … is looking for a poem that began "When In Remembrance of Things Past/I take down my copy of that novel vast" and ended "...Proust/ And back upon the …
Issue: July-August 2002
Harvard Global Institute Grant Supports Climate-Change Research in China
… The newly formed Harvard Global Institute (HGI) has … in China and globally. The project, led by Butler professor of environmental studies Michael McElroy and Morris …