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"Hell's Aardvarks" at 50
… In the antediluvian days before e-mail, the Harvard Crimson's … list announcing student events. Space limitations often swallowed notices at the end of the alphabet--like … what was going on, rather than a genuinely creative enterprise," says Dick Gunther '59, who named Cambridge 38 after …
Chapter & Verse
… Kenneth Kronenberg seeks the definitive source for “When fascism comes to America, it … Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here . (On-line searches of two texts of the novel yielded nothing, he says). Clifford Straehley …
Issue: September-October 2007
Questions for a Friend
… Adapted from an article by Pipes that ran in the Jerusalem Post on November 26, 2003 If militant Islam is the problem and moderate Islam is the solution, as I often argue, how does one differentiate between these two forms of Islam? It is often useful to ask questions. Such …
Issue: January-February 2005
Counterterrorism and Democracy
… When the United States declared war on al Qaeda, it simply … that other democracies before us had followed in the wake of terrorist atrocities," says Louise Richardson, the departing executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (in January, …
Issue: January-February 2009
News Briefs
… Assault Rates Unchanged On October 15, Harvard released the results of a survey estimating the prevalence of sexual assault and other sexual misconduct among its …
Issue: January-February 2020
Reading the Winds
… When Sophia Montgomery first sailed, she hated it. Then eight years old, she disliked the waves and felt … getting hit by the boom—the long metal pole at the bottom of the sail. And she didn’t even know how to turn her boat … would drive two hours from Bangkok to the coastal city of Pattaya (which she calls “a very wild touristic place” …
Harvard College Invites Seniors, Most Juniors to Campus for Spring Term
… After a fall term during which just 23 percent of undergraduates—primarily first-year students—were in residence, Harvard College will invite a maximum of 3,100 students (about half the total) to be in residence for the spring semester, …
From Crimson Madness to March Madness?
… Introducing Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report On Friday evening, October 17, Crimson Madness—a kickoff event to celebrate the start of the Harvard men’s basketball team’s fall practices—began …
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to Speak at Harvard
… Daw Aung San Suu Kyi — winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 (awarded in absentia) , founder and chair of Burma’s National League for Democracy, the victim of 15 …
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg ’06 Back on Campus
… Dropping out of Harvard: a standard to aspire to. Harvard unrolled the crimson carpet on Monday as famous (and infamous) … and did just that, leaving students and reporters alike surprised by his sudden exit. Another scene from The Social …
What Might Be Next For Café Algiers?
… 45 years. Owner Leo Diodato says it’s now possible that the café, a “sister” to Andala Coffee House in Central Square, might relocate there if it is able to secure a location in the coming month. One of the only Middle Eastern eateries in the Square, Algiers …
Getting to Know Wallace Shawn
… The March-April 2011 feature article " Famous Comedian, 'Dangerous' Playwright " profiles Wallace Shawn. See Shawn in a memorable scene from … with Al Jazeera English, Shawn discusses the dynamics of his family of origin and their influence on his work: …
Issue: March-April 2011
Biological Vaccine Factories
… A miniature device the size and shape of an aspirin tablet could provide new options for people with cancer. Developed in the lab of Pinkas Family professor of bioengineering David Mooney, …
Issue: January-February 2021
Family or Fortune
… career is perhaps obvious. But new research by Lee professor of economics Claudia Goldin and Allison professor of economics Lawrence Katz shows just how bad the quality of life is for financial-sector workers. The …
Issue: January-February 2010
Research Roster
… Harvard hums with research. In the fiscal year ended June 30, 2000, the University received … Even that sum is understated: it excludes hundreds of millions more expended at affiliated hospitals, in dozens of endowment-funded research centers, and in the daily …
Issue: September-October 2001