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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
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
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
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
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 …
Jane Rosenzweig
… In 2022, Jane Rosenzweig published an op-ed in the Boston Globe, “What We Lose When Machines Do the Writing”—the first of several she’s produced about artificial intelligence …
Issue: January-February 2025
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 …
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
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
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
A Toolkit in 0s and 1s
… In the late 1930s, Harvard graduate student Howard Aiken was dreaming of a computing machine. His doctoral thesis in physics … from basic science to advertising; already, it has given rise—via complex computational models, coupled with …
Issue: November-December 2013
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 …
The Enigmatic Mr. Putin
… Who is Mr. Putin?” The question reverberated in world capitals when Boris … Vladimirovich Putin as his choice for prime minister of Russia and as his heir when a presidential election … that were spectacularly on display in two successive crises late in his second term: the financial emergency of …
Issue: May-June 2007
The Art of Subtraction
… The royal palace of Hampton Court, built on the Thames nearly 12 miles upstream from London by Henry … fire on March 31, 1986. A bedside candle in the room of the elderly Lady Gale, a resident who perished in the …
Issue: July-August 2013
Foundations of Faith?
… frequently pit science against religion. But work by professor of mathematics and of biology Martin Nowak adds a surprising …
Issue: September-October 2007