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Model Student
… The Indian-American fashion model Sonia Dara ’12 (’13) broke … ambitions as long as she maintained her grades. Unlike many of her peers, who wanted to “drop everything, move to New … Munich.) She worked weekends or after school, and took time off from classes only for really big jobs—the runway show …
Issue: January-February 2013
Football: Harvard 24, Dartmouth 21
… Under the Stadium lights on Saturday night, reserve place-kicker … missing a 34-yard field goal, but succeeding on five out of five point-after tries and booming three of his kickoffs out of the end zone. After making field …
Real Fashion Police
… On Oscar night , the exquisite gowns on movie stars like Charlize Theron, … Awards themselves: red-carpet commentators intone the names of the designers who have clothed the parading beauties. And … amazing speed, American fashion pirates will have knock-off copies of these dresses in the stores, available at …
Issue: July-August 2010
Treasure Hunter
… From hanging out with R.E.M. in Athens, Georgia, to showing her paintings in Rome, to … the Catskills, Laura Levine '79 has followed a kaleidoscope of career paths. Her artistic journey began at the Crimson , … into a career as a free-lance photographer and maker of music videos. But by the mid 1990s, she was disillusioned …
Issue: January-February 2002
Salman Khan: “Surrender Your Individual Ego”
… Noting that “we are in the early stages of an inflection point that may be larger … Khan, M.B.A. ’03, told the Harvard Business School’s class of 2014 to take advantage of the rare opportunities they’ve …
On Your Summer Vacation...
… indoors or out, may enjoy sampling online courses and other University resources. HarvardX courses open for summer … enrollment include “Science and Cooking” (a popular School of Engineering and Applied Sciences offering—enroll by June 17); “Tangible Things” (history …
Issue: July-August 2015
Live Life to Its Fullest, HBS Class Day Speakers Urge
… Meira, whose husband, Pedro Meira, was also a member of the HBS class of 2016 and passed away last September from stomach cancer, …
Artificial Wants
… passers-by." Josiah Quincy, A.B. 1790, LL.D. 1824 , drafted the following advice to undergraduates in 1837 or '38, while he was president of Harvard. He may well have disseminated it, for advice on … attended with worse consequences, always troublesome—often injurious, sometimes fatal.... Illustration by Lynne …
Issue: November-December 2002
Introversion Unbound
… A century ago, psychoanalysts declared that the human personality was largely fixed by age five. More … oriented psychologists have detected characteristic signs of temperament in infancy. Even so, personality psychologist … and a former Radcliffe Institute fellow, is "wary of spurious genetic postulations and claims of a genetic …
Issue: July-August 2003
Medical School Receives Gift for Primary-Care Center
… (HMS) has received a $30 million gift to create a "center of excellence" for primary care. With most medical students … choosing highly paid specialties over primary care, the field is "in crisis," an HMS briefing on the new center … the briefing said. Domestically, primary care is "one of our most important strategies to reduce costs and improve …
Two Charged in Theft
… and Randy J. Gomes '02 allegedly stole about $90,000 from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals. They were due to be arraigned … 2001 show, Fangs for the Memories, and was business manager of the 2000 production, The Jewel of Denial. Gomes helped organize the 2001 man- and …
Issue: March-April 2002
“Missed Opportunities”
… The report of the Cambridge Review Committee, appointed to investigate the circumstances that led to the arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. by Cambridge police …
In Running, Is Barefoot Best?
… long before arch supports and shock absorbers were added to their footwear. In the pages of Harvard Magazine , Lieberman, a professor of anthropology, explained his theory that endurance …
Harvard Renovated
… Fall has come to campus , but the trees are not the only scenery that has changed in recent months. Harvard Magazine took advantage of some sunny days and walked through campus to prepare this … new construction in Cambridge and Boston. The new School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) facility in …
Clean Air, Longer Life
… Clean or dirty, like it or not, every day you breathe in 20,000 liters of air; you can't decide when to do it. But research has … longer you will live. Investigators at the Harvard School of Public Health demonstrated that association in 1993 when …
Issue: May-June 2009