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“God Created Harvard”
… Before he earned a master of philosophy degree from Cambridge University on a … career with roles on Judging Amy , Six Feet Under, and other television shows, Joshua Preven ’91 delivered the … His revelations brought down the house. Read the full text of his speech in this PDF from the July-August 1991 issue . …
Mao, Zhou—and Ji
… Ji Chaozhu ’52, who left the College during the Korean War to return to his native … Zhou Enlai, and Deng Xiaoping , is today’s Saturday Profile in the New York Times . The article by David Barboza coincides with the fortieth anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s historic visit to the People’s …
President and Polity
… H. Summers e-mailed a multi-thousand-word “letter to the community” on November 7, subsequently published as a 12-page insert to the official Gazette (available at www.president.harvard.edu ). The cover note said the text conveyed “my sense of some important recent developments at the University …
Issue: January-February 2006
Harvard Calendar
… FILM. Following its recent summer tradition, the Harvard Film Archive offers "movies from A to Z" taken from its 6,000-print … in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town; Renée Falconetti in The Passion of Joan of Arc and Frances Farmer in Come and Get It ; …
Issue: July-August 2002
When Minnie Turns Mickey
… John Gray memorably suggested, sex hormones usually get the blame for placing them so far apart. Scientists have … male or female behavior. But surprising findings in the lab of Higgins professor of molecular and cellular biology Catherine Dulac, …
Issue: March-April 2008
Alumni Awards
… organize exceptional programming. Awards were presented to the following recipients at the HAA Board of Directors winter meeting on February 3. David A. Chen, M.Arch.-M.A.U. ’99, of Radnor, Pennsylvania. As immediate past president of the …
Issue: March-April 2011
Hockey Coach Donato Reflects
… In a recent interview in the Boston Globe, head men's ice hockey coach Ted Donato ’91 offers candid reflections on his six years at the helm of the Crimson program. After a strong start, with 21 …
Harvard Calendar
… SPECIAL. Dance yourself over to the annual CityStep show, featuring Cambridge fifth- and … for ArtsFirst 2000, Harvard’s eighth annual celebration of the arts, coming up May 4-7. THEATER. The American Repertory Theatre’ s production of Joe Orton’s Loot concludes its run on March 15; Charles …
Steady State
… pays. So do effective investment disciplines. Those are the two signal lessons from recent Harvard Management Company (HMC) stewardship of the University's endowment funds. The return on … equities such as venture capital. "We may not be out of the woods," Meyer wrote in September, in his annual …
Issue: November-December 2002
It's Still Hard for Women in Science
… undergraduate Nancy Hopkins ’64, Ph.D. ’71, was struck by the elegance of the double helix. Seated in an introductory biology … as her future mentor James Watson described the design of DNA, which had just earned him a Nobel Prize with Francis …
Stem-cell Science
… Harvard has launched an important new scientific enterprise, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI). The public … working on stem cells, says Douglas Melton, Cabot professor in the natural sciences and chair of the Life …
Issue: May-June 2004
Gifts and Endowments, 2005
… The rich get richer, at least as measured by annual giving … in March by the University’s alumni affairs and development office. Duringthe fiscal year ended June 30, 2005, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the business, medical, and law …
Issue: September-October 2006
War Stories
… Robert T. Tims '47 found the transition between his two worlds in 1945 sudden, … and occupied France," he writes in The Harvard Class of 1947 and World War II, a new collection of wartime memoirs. "The next day I was a lowly corduroyed …
Issue: January-February 2004
Harvard Law School
… The Class Day address by Samantha Power, J.D. ’99, Lindh … Thursday, May 27, degree candidates are invited to a "sunrise breakfast" beginning at 7 a.m. Candidates will gather …
Communication Skills
… with passers-by." Watching President George W. Bush at the podium, one might judge that in the elocutionary arts, … the gesture department. A tentative finger-point. A drift of the open hand. He might do well to study A Practical Treatise of Gesture (1829), by Jonathan Barber, who taught elocution …
Issue: January-February 2003