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Kids Turn New Pages
… Parents in the 1960s generally expected their children to be passive … them, express their ideas, and render judgments. Evidence of this sea change turns up in an unexpected and largely … dissertation examines various trends in the subject matter of children's nonfiction books between 1960 and 2000. Both …
Issue: March-April 2004
A Community Innovation Lab
… Imagine a large blank bulletin board hanging in the middle of Upham’s Corner in Dorchester covered with … Or interactive, multi-touch panels running along both sides of the entryway of the affordable-housing project Orchard …
Issue: January-February 2013
Harvard Wins at Henley
… last crew rowed a “straight” (uncoxed) four to victory in the Visitors’ Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta in … event record, bettering the old mark held by Leander Club of Great Britain by five seconds. It marked the thirtieth … a Scottish bagpiper played on the dock the morning of Saturday, June 29, as a final homage to Parker.) This …
Yale Capitulates
… Universit y , which had maintained a (relatively) rosy view of its prospective endowment losses and resulting spending … 10 announced weaker than anticipated investment results for the fiscal year ended last June, and is therefore imposing … a decline in endowment value from $22.9 billion as of June 30, 2008, to about $17 billion (reflecting both …
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, …
Watertown-Gown
… to neighboring Watertown, Massachusetts, where in May 2001 the University purchased a 30-acre commercial property known as the Arsenal for $162 million. Watertown officials and residents, concerned about the potential loss of future tax revenue under a nonprofit owner, initially …
Issue: November-December 2002
Chapter & Verse
… Michael Comenetz asks if the phrase “Galloping Gordon,” sometimes applied to British … Nat Kuhn would like to know who said or wrote, "The task of the Christian is to hold opposites in the heart until the … to a female theologian. David Keyes asks for the source of “Mathematics is the music of the mind. Music is the …
Issue: May-June 2008
Laura Justine Garwin
… with Harvard's jazz, concert, and marching bands, the Bach Society Orchestra, and the pit orchestras of many musicals, after volleyball and water polo, and after … her thesis was on fission-track dating and tectonics of the eastern Pyrenees. In 1988 she joined Nature magazine …
Issue: September-October 2002
Biomedical Momentum
… The curtain has begun to lift on Harvard's growing … year highlighted the enormous economic implications of developing biomedical technology; the role of university … E. Porter, a scholar of corporate strategy and of enterprise "clusters," convened a "Massachusetts Life Sciences …
Issue: November-December 2003
Medical Quad Times Two
… The ceremonial groundbreaking for Harvard Medical School's … Coming as it does about a century after the creation of the school's Boston campus, the huge new … feet overall, including a quarter-million square feet of laboratory space--continues a major extension of research …
Why Nations Fail
… Boston, listening as a presenter used historical data from the previous two decades to explain underdevelopment in Haiti. “We went for coffee, and remember saying to each other, ‘This is crazy!’” Robinson recalls. “‘Haiti is like it is because of a very deep-seated, historical process. You need to go …
Issue: July-August 2012
Two Musical Neighborhoods
… Artists and scholarly analysts of their works inhabit different realms of a co-dependent relationship. Peabody research professor …
Issue: July-August 2008
Radcliffe Consults Its Compass
… The nascent Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, whose … continued taking shape this February with the delivery of an advisory committee report. Last June, President Neil … committee chaired by Caroline Bynum, Ph.D. '69, a history professor at Columbia. Committee members included …
Law School Alumna Wins National Book Award
… This year’s National Book Award for nonfiction went to The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family , by Annette Gordon-Reed, J.D. ’84. The book follows three generations of a slave family owned by Thomas Jefferson. It beat out …
Rudenstine Will Step Down
… 1, 1991, announced on May 22 that he would step down at the end of the next academic year. He reached the decision "after … past decade." In one sense, the news took Harvard by surprise: it came unheralded between the elaborately scripted …