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Trump Administration Aims at Harvard Funding
… The federal government’s Joint Task Force to Combat … administers disciplinary proceedings and on the oversight of Mideast studies and other programs—tonight announced that … news release , presented as coming from the U.S. Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services …
Vita: Gertrude of Helfta
… Saint Gertrude of helfta , known as “The Great,” was given to the German convent of Helfta as a child of five to be reared as a nun, received …
Issue: May-June 2012
“The Spirit of Commitment and Sacrifice”
… At the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps commissioning ceremony on Wednesday, May 27, three College seniors joined the U.S. Army and a fourth joined the U.S. Navy. The new second lieutenants are: Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld, of New Haven, Connecticut, who concentrated in philosophy …
Black, White, and Many Shades of Gray
… In The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama , David … Law,” a course taught by Randall Kennedy, now Klein professor of law. “Kennedy had caused some controversy, …
Issue: May-June 2013
Botanizing in the “Mother of Gardens”
… The first thing the explorers noticed when they reached the … a few words in Chinese, and Wang Kang, a seven-time veteran of these expeditions, relayed their meaning to the … can set mountainsides in motion. So it was no surprise when Dosmann had to leap from the van on the descent to …
Issue: January-February 2018
Castling in the Square
… The Harvard Chess Club battles the clock and the competition by Paul Hoffman On the last Sunday in October, last year, four … memories, and the second is that they are calculating machines—that they think way ahead, exploring hundreds …
Issue: November-December 2002
Democracy Requests the Pleasure of Your Company
… The day before she cast two tiebreaker votes in the Senate … Kamala Harris brought chocolates for senators on both sides of the aisle and then huddled with a few senior members … activity, a social venture that follows from being surprised by something beautiful, or even something ugly. The …
Issue: May-June 2021
Pride of the Indian College
… Not every novelist can say she owes her career to the Nigerian secret police, but the Pulitzer Prize-winning … the Wall Street Journal, Brooks ended up on the wrong side of Sani Abacha’s military regime. “To cut a long story … in Port Harcourt,” she says. Her first reaction wasn’t fear of prison but of her biological clock: “I thought, ‘Oh, gee, …
Issue: May-June 2011
What’s Become of “Character”?
… Kenan professor of English and of visual and environmental studies Marjorie … Garber is an eclectic and creative scholar. In Character: The History of a Cultural Obsession (Farrar, Straus & … found a suitably broad subject for her interests, spanning the meanings of the term from the ancient word for engraving …
Issue: July-August 2020
Mum’s the Word
… In october, when the University reported financial results for fiscal year 2022, it introduced a surprise. Alongside news of a huge budget surplus, Harvard Management Company (HMC) …
Issue: January-February 2023
A Roomful of Masterworks
… Fifty years ago this spring, the Fogg Art Museum got a present from Maurice Wertheim '06, … York Theater Guild. In 1935 he bought and became publisher of the deficit-burdened Nation, described by recent editor … independent, trouble-making, idea-launching journal of critical opinion." One of his daughters, Barbara (later …
A Bumper Crop in the National Academy of Medicine
… The National Academy of Medicine has elected 100 new … affiliates—an unusually large cohort, and more evidence of the University’s prowess in medicine, life sciences, and …
To Educate Children, a Unicycle Ride
… through Montreal and neighboring districts in Quebec. Their vehicle of choice? The unicycle. The trip, dubbed “A Balancing Act,” … that works to expand education for children in rural areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Sophie Wharton, a psychology …
College Admits 13.9 Percent of Early Applicants
… The College has admitted 13.9 percent of early-action … are women, the University statement said. The number has risen from 52.9 last year and just 33 percent the year …
Optimizing Public-School Spending
… follows elections in her local community is familiar with the passionate debate about public-school spending. How much … funding do the schools need? What is the most effective use of those funds? Studies conducted from 2015 on have found … and graduates’ future wages and economic mobility all rise—confirming popular intuitions. Research by economist …
Issue: November-December 2021