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Leadership Tips from a "Soldier Scholar"
… The eight graduating Harvard seniors about to be commissioned as military officers on June 3 had already received an exceptional … Command, noted: a Harvard degree, and an excellent Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program. “As you prepare for …
Cornering COVID-19
… Only immunity can bring an end to the current pandemic—whether through vaccination or the potentially deadly ordeal of infection. Unfortunately, it’s not a given that either a bout of COVID-19, or any of the experimental vaccines now in …
Issue: July-August 2020
“Twenty Questions” with William Deresiewicz
… packed Paine Hall to watch William Deresiewicz, author of the controversial new book Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, …
Harvard Portrait: Jennifer Lewis
… Lewis’s engineered materials look to nature as a guide. The new Wyss professor of biologically inspired engineering uses 3-D printing to …
Issue: November-December 2013
Cambridge 02138
… The Future of Fracking Michael McElroy and Xi Lu's … provide opinion and recrimination, but little background on the techniques, economics, ecological concerns, and the … as well as an investment climate that fosters full use of the technology and resource, while paving the way for the …
Issue: March-April 2013
How Physics Can Be Used to Manipulate a Coin Toss
… Ever lost a coin toss? In theory, the odds could have gone your way or the other. The … stakes may or may not have been low for you, but millions of dollars are regularly waged on the outcome of the Super Bowl coin toss. But what if a coin lands on its …
Football: Harvard 28-Merrimack 21
… I f you were a Harvard fan among the 10,946 attending the 2022 season opener Friday night, … have been forgiven had you shuffled disconsolately out of the Stadium with seven or so minutes remaining in the … you also would have been forgiven had you needed to get off the road when you heard the final score: Harvard 28, …
Objecting to Student Oaths
… Since last spring, the College’s policy to sanction members of unrecognized … the chooser. So it should perhaps come as little surprise that Haig finds himself again at odds with the …
Puzzle "John Harvard"
… Download the Puzzle | Download the Hints | Download the Solution "John Harvard" Solvers … and can subscribe to his mailing list. … Clever creations of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52 … Puzzle "John Harvard" … …
Designing from Life
… As a piece of engineering , the human body is a marvel. It maintains its balance even … even its most far-flung extremities. It has cells capable of replacing wounded tissue, finding and destroying …
Issue: May-June 2011
Interest Rate Insight
… Wondering what in the world is going on with the economy lately? Let Sebastian Mallaby explain. Mallaby is director of the Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the … Fellow at this magazine and now the assistant editor of cfr.org , Mallaby says the Federal Reserve's latest rate …
Liftoff
… The Harvard Campaign , officially launched on September 21 after the quietest of quiet phases, seeks $6.5 billion—the largest initial …
Issue: November-December 2013
Brevia
… Robert C. Clark Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard News Office Legal Leader Thanksgiving week, Robert C. Clark , a corporate-law scholar who has been dean of Harvard Law School (HLS) since 1989, announced that he will step down at the end of the academic year. Clark cited the length of his …
Issue: January-February 2003
Harvard Center's Maps Help Haiti Effort
… While the world rallies resources for relief work in Haiti, news … workers try to plan the fair and efficient distribution of aid, they face another vexing challenge: the scarcity of up-to-date, accurate geographic data. Getting new, …
Sun and Shade
… April 2, not a moment too soon, Harvardians emerging into the sunlight may wish to visit the restored Dudley Garden at the back of Lamont Library, hidden from Massachusetts Avenue by a … gate in the wrought-iron fence extending from the east end of Wigglesworth toward Lamont. The garden is open during …