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Silverglate on Obama, HLS, and that New Yorker Cover
… Harvey Silverglate disapproves of the Obama campaign's reaction to the satirical New Yorker … A campaign spokesman called the cartoon "tasteless and offensive"; Silverglate, LL.B. ’67, attributes that reaction …
Ready for Growth?
… Harvard proposes to put shovels in the ground not only to build a new campus in Allston but, … building at the Arnold Arboretum. The public first heard of the project in 2003, but as this issue went to press, a neighborhood association remained concerned about aspects of it, the job was out for bids, but Harvard had yet to …
Issue: May-June 2007
Harvard 2025 Commencement Photo Album
… members, along with photographer Stu Rosner, captured some of the pomp and confetti throughout Commencement week. Refer … | Commencement Day Class Day Read our full coverage of the Class Day ROTC Commissioning Ceremony Read our …
Jack Barnaby: A Remembrance
… There is a T-shirt in my vast collection that I take out … JACK BARNABY'S 80TH/ SEPTEMBER 23, 1989. It's a souvenir of the birthday party at Harvard that gathered about a hundred of Barnaby's friends and former athletes, some of whom …
Issue: May-June 2002
Let's Make a Deal
… The Program on Negotiation (PON), a robust organization … what was just then beginning to be recognized as the field of negotiation. Their advice was increasingly sought by … and someone to answer the telephone. Today, "as a community of scholars and a renowned teaching center for …
Issue: March-April 2004
Tax Tutors
… his Ladder Up volunteers can be found at work throughout the Chicago area, helping low-income families keep as much of their income as possible. Ladder Up’s free financial … about tax credits and aid for higher education; the nonprofit ( www.goladderup.org ), which Burke founded in 1994 and …
Issue: March-April 2009
From Elite to Everyman
… Genetic endowments aside, an elite endurance athlete and the average daily walker are, in their adaptations to … fellow at Harvard Medical School studying the biochemistry of activity and inactivity. The person who works out every … do. Many use heart-rate monitors to gauge the intensity of their workouts, so they can exercise at a percentage of …
Issue: March-April 2004
Women and War
… The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study offers April … and New York City that high-light women’s roles in times of war. The April 10 panel discussion at the United States …
Issue: March-April 2006
2005-2006 Ledecky Fellows
… s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2005-2006 academic year will be junior John A. La Rue … Widdicombe, who were selected from a competitive evaluation of two dozen student writers’ applications for the position. … focus on U.S. politics and social policy. As editor of SWIFT , a student-run satire magazine, he has …
Issue: September-October 2005
July 2, Day 1
… Lawrence H. Summers became the University's twenty-seventh president on Sunday, July 1. Next day, photographers visited his office in Massachusetts Hall and found an accouterment novel … for administration, from the rear; Joe Wrinn, director of news and public affairs). Photographs by Justin Allardyce …
Issue: September-October 2001
Allston Advances
… When four faculty task forces finished their reports on Allston this May, the development scenario … page 52) — that Harvard will become even more of a campus with a river running through it — began to take shape and even take on a life of its own. In particular, the idea of building …
Issue: July-August 2004
"Extraordinary Bonuses"
… returns on endowment assets have been much stronger than the financial markets in general, the performance-based pay … Management Company (HMC) to compensate its investment professionals has annually produced a few outsized paychecks … attention, and prompted unusual responses from University offcials. During fiscal year 2003, the foreign fixed-income …
Issue: March-April 2004
Nontraditional Students Surge
… As times change , so does traditional Harvard: the small, parochial school for ministers transformed over … the Center for Education Statistics, more than two-fifths of students in higher education today are nontraditional, … nontraditional students, and in 2036, the majority of students enrolled at the University will most likely be …
Issue: September-October 2011
"My life had been uplifted"
… Had it not been for the “Living with Life-Threatening Illness” course, Christie … and two children in inner-city Boston. An untreatable case of anal-rectal cancer had left her in excruciating, … body-contorting pain. For several months in the spring of 2004, however, these two spiritual women connected …
Issue: January-February 2006
A Gay Man Asks A Tough Question
… David Thorpe ’91 was a fresh-out-of-the-closet sophomore when he decided to take a break from … with those around him. Following this semester-long journey of self-discovery, Thorpe returned to Harvard as a junior. …