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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
Made Visible
… In the United States and throughout the world, migration is a … media, places, and times, explores these two dimensions of human movement, and the space in between. Its images and … a documentary role, with the ability to reveal and surprise. Beside well-known symbols of migration—passports, the …
Issue: November-December 2019
“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 …
Horseplayer Extraordinaire
… even though its price—$5 to $6 a copy—makes it one of the most expensive papers in the world. In a way, that high … walk in, order a drink, and start gambling.” But if slot machines and lotteries have siphoned off income from …
Issue: March-April 2010
The Parkland Generation
… I spent my July Fourth listening to fireworks instead of watching them. I had opted for a nighttime walk through Danehy Park, just a few blocks north of the Radcliffe Quadrangle. During the school year, it had …
Issue: September-October 2022
Parks for Tomorrow
… old industrial plaza in Arles, France. Entirely concrete, the space posed a problem. The area was being transformed … a simple question: what would nature do? Smets, now a professor in practice of landscape architecture, says that as … asks one how the city could adapt to a global temperature rise of two degrees Celsius. The others he asks, what about …
Issue: July-August 2024
A Year of “Good Progress”
… Assessing the academic year now drawing to a close, William F. Lee, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, said today in one of his … banner. Click image to enlarge: Harvard engineering, on the rise Courtesy of SEAS Communications The recently announced …
Thinking Outside the Pack
… Cigarettes , observes Robert N. Proctor, Ph.D. ’84 , “remain the world’s single largest preventable cause of death,” and following roughly 100 million tobacco-related … billion deaths in the twenty-first. The author, now professor of the history of science at Stanford, has written a …
Issue: July-August 2012
Off the Shelf
… A Synthesizing Mind, by Howard Gardner, research professor on … for his ambitious project. Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny, by Debora L. Spar, MBA …
Issue: September-October 2020
Yesterday's News
… 1919 King Albert of Belgium, hero of World War I, receives an honorary degree and becomes the first reigning monarch to set foot in Harvard … navy after final tests, the gathering discusses how such machines could be used to work on problems in the social …
Issue: September-October 2009
The Economic Effects of Mosquito- and Tick-Borne Illnesses
… The assault begins on the note of high c, an annoying whine … water, breathing through a tube at the surface. Larvae give rise to the pupal stage in 12 days. Two days more and a …
Issue: November-December 2001
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
Agree to Disagree
… Last year, in the midst of all of the turmoil on campus in the aftermath of October 7, I sat …
Issue: July-August 2025
The Places You’ll Go
… What links Friendly’s Ice Cream, the Merriam-Webster dictionary, and the Indian motorcycle? Where did the Game of Life, M1 rifle, and Dr. Seuss originate? Here’s a hint: … Last year, the museum publicly supported Dr. Seuss Enterprises’ removal of six books from publication, including two …
Issue: November-December 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