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Club Service
… The HAA clubs committee this fall introduced a new award to … in November: Ignacio D. "Nash" Flores III, M.B.A. '67, of Dallas, has chaired the Schools and Scholarships Committee of the Harvard Club of Dallas for more than 15 years, and …
Chapter & Verse
… Wayles Brown asks whether anyone can provide an exact source and the precise wording for a comment often attributed to Oscar Wilde: “The trouble with socialism … an exact source and the precise wording for another comment often attributed to Oscar Wilde: “Morality, like art, means …
Issue: March-April 2007
News Briefs
… University Professor Arrested Friedman University Professor Charles M. … science and bio-compatible electronics, and chair of the department of chemistry and chemical biology—was … by Steven Senne/AP Images Comparable concerns have arisen at peer institutions, where such conversations are …
Issue: March-April 2020
An Historic Upset
… and an intelligent game plan executed to near perfection, the Harvard men’s basketball team pulled off the biggest victory in the history of the program on March 21, upsetting the University of New …
Biggest Loser Contestants Share Tips
… Two former contestants on the popular television show The Biggest Loser, in which … and women compete to lose the most weight and win a prize of $250,000, came to the Malkin Athletic Center on January … and weight loss. Frado Dinten and Brendan Donovan, neither of whom won the grand prize, frankly dissected their fears, …
Harvard Installs “Triangle Constellation"
… Before the Harvard Art Museums opened on the morning of April 15, … by a worker standing atop a heavy red lift, hoisting pieces of steel to the rafters. On the cardboard-covered floor, …
Mindful Munching
… In their new book , Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life … Lilian Cheung, a lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health, apply ancient Buddhist mindfulness … grew up in a Buddhist home in Hong Kong. A longtime student of Hanh’s work, Cheung years ago saw an opportunity to weave …
Issue: September-October 2010
Honoris Causa
… 353rd Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced them to the Commencement audience, and President Lawrence H. Summers read the citations. In order of presentation, the honorands were: Sir Frank Kermode. The former Lord Northcliffe professor and King Edward VII professor of English literature …
Issue: July-August 2004
We Want Your Feedback
… We’ve launched the new Harvardmagazine.com! Our new site offers updated … design, streamlined navigation, and greater coverage of Harvard University news. And we’ve made it even easier …
Nothing to Fear
… Few people devote their lives to creatures that have frightened and killed … which her sister accidentally threw at her in a pail of water while they played on the shore of Lake Ontario. Her parents indirectly fed the passion. “I …
Issue: March-April 2006
Harvard Square under Pandemic Pressure
… In normal times, Harvard Square looms large in the memory of alumni and serves as a magnet for visitors … over the decades— the natural ebb and flow of enterprise. But this time, Square businesses confront a very …
Alec Baldwin to Speak at Law School Class Day
… Alec Baldwin Actor Alec Baldwin will be the Class Day Speaker at Harvard Law School on May 25. Currently a star of the NBC comedy series 30 Rock, with Tina Fey, Baldwin has …
Harvard 37, Princeton 3
… Two for the show: Harvard and Penn stayed unbeaten in Ivy League … as the Crimson bashed Princeton, 37-3, and Penn held off Yale, 9-0. Harvard (3-0 Ivy, 4-2 overall) must engage … running backs Gino Gordon ’11 and Cheng Ho ’10 did the rest of the Crimson scoring. The defense held the …
Far Away
… It took 15 minutes to walk to town. I went across the sand, out the school gates to a path through the tall, … On the other side was the one road through the town of Omaruru in central Namibia, and next to the municipal … cupcake tins and a grapefruit fork, and the presence of these objects struck me as peculiar, and stayed with me. …
Issue: November-December 2011
Single-Gender Groups Sue Harvard
… A group of sororities, fraternities, and Harvard undergraduates sued the University this week over its policy to sanction … suit, the plaintiffs—the international parent organizations of two sororities, Kappa Alpha Theta and Kappa Kappa Gamma, …