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Reinterpreting Roe v. Wade
… times more likely to name Roe v. Wade than Brown v. Board of Education . “Why? It comes to mind because over the past 37 years, Roe versus Wade has become synonymous with political controversy and has generated profound social conflict,” Linda Greenhouse ’68 explained in a …
Reza Aslan on Faith, Jesus, and Fox News
… In a discussion Thursday at the Divinity School, New York Times bestselling author Reza … conversation about personal faith, the historical figure of Jesus, and the challenges of writing for a popular … to specific political and religious powers. The man that arises from that understanding may not look like the man you …
Chapter & Verse
… Nicholas Puner requests leads to lost favorites. In the first, a short story, a man is driven progressively … difficult for him to walk. The others are a series of English detective stories for children involving the … Henderson would like to learn the full text and author of a poem that begins, "Once there was a proper gent/Who …
Issue: May-June 2004
Football: Harvard 45, Brown 31
… on Saturday. Racking up 21 fourth-quarter points for the second straight weekend, Harvard’s defending Ivy League … and senior quarterback Colton Chapple, who completed 30 of 40 passes for 351 yards and one touchdown. The game was … Ivy League opener for both teams. Harvard has now won 12 of its last 14 Ivy openers, and is sporting an 11-game …
A Formidable Woman
… Fasano, A.A.E. '93, when she was closing in on her bachelor of liberal arts in extension studies degree. President Rudenstine saluted her during the morning exercises, "the eldest student in the history of this University to graduate with a B.A.," and noted that …
“I Got Race”
… Cambridge from Calcutta with six bags and $60, dressed in their best clothes. In India, they were upper-caste Hindu … America gave Sen ’92 new manners (“The Proper Use of Salt and Pepper”; “The Blessed Sneeze”; “The Indoor … people get chicken pox. I also got race as one gets a pair of shoes or a cell phone. It was something new, something to …
Issue: September-October 2018
Thomas Lentz to Leave Harvard Art Museums
… Thomas W. Lentz , Cabot director of the Harvard Art Museums, today announced that he would step down at the end of the academic year—a surprising and apparently unexpected …
How Clean Is John Harvard?
… note: Readers should note that this article covers one of the least socially correct of Harvard undergraduate pranks. The John Harvard statue is …
Lizabeth Cohen Appointed Radcliffe Institute Interim Dean
… Jones professor of American studies Lizabeth Cohen will become interim dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study , starting July … Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 and A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America . Since …
Time Apart
… from bed and dressed for chilly September winds, a group of yogis sit on a rocky promontory at the eastern tip of Star Island. Silhouetted against the sky, they watch the …
Issue: March-April 2017
Dedicating Maxwell Dworkin
… liberal-arts center like Harvard, home to what is arguably the world's first computer, could also be called the birthplace of the world's most successful software company? Are we sure … affections. Harvard in this sense is a deeply human enterprise and institution." … How is it that a famous …
Graduate Admissions in Lower Gear
… The harvard crimson reported in mid February that the number of admissions to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) would be reduced 4.4 percent, …
Issue: May-June 2017
Brevia
… Harry R. Lewis Departing Deans David T. Ellwood, dean of the Harvard Kennedy School since mid 2004 (preceding Drew … also in Beijing.… SOHO China Foundation, which surprised Harvard with a $15-million fund for scholarships for …
Issue: January-February 2015
Sanctions Scrutinized
… Following months of heated debate within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) over the policy of sanctioning …
Issue: March-April 2017
"If You Love Rats"
… ’66, M.D. ’73, writing as Samuel Shem, published a novel, The House of God , in 1978—a biting comedy about the lives of medical … received within the medical hierarchy. So it was a surprise that Bergman, who spent decades on the Medical School …
Issue: July-August 2009