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Off the Shelf
… A Synthesizing Mind, by Howard Gardner, research professor on … for his ambitious project. Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny, by Debora L. Spar, MBA …
Issue: September-October 2020
The State of the Final-Club Debate
… Last Friday, when members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) received their … in The Harvard Crimson and other accounts. The surprises don’t end there: those accounts overlooked the …
Softball Ace
… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2pdQmfBe9Y width:402] The ace of the Harvard Crimson's softball pitching staff , Rachel … ’12, shows how she grips and throws her best pitches: the rise ball, chamge-up, and curve. Coach Jenny Allard analyzes …
Issue: May-June 2012
Broadsheet Coffee Roasters
… Figuring that “day-trading my stock portfolio was not the best use of my time,” former banker Aaron MacDougall ’94 chose … brewing, and roasting. “Starbucks uses super-automatic machines; they just press a button and out it comes. They …
Issue: March-April 2018
Mugged on Park Avenue
… The stories of Manhattan's outrageous apartment prices are … to determine why — when the cost of building new high-rise apartments there ranges from about $150 to $200 per … to fall. However, Manhattan's prices have continued to rise at rates more than double the national average. And …
Issue: July-August 2004
Yesterday's News
… 1935 The Business School announces 10 new courses on the business aspects of public administration for students who wish to prepare … though they do “lie a goodly distance away from the pinball machines and hamburger heavens of Harvard Square.” 1960 …
Issue: January-February 2010
Reading the "Five-foot Shelf" of Harvard Classics
… Princeton alumnus Christopher Beha records the life-affecting experience of reading his way straight through the "Five-foot Shelf" of Harvard Classics, the Great Books famously published in …
Looking for the Real Stan Lee
… Sometime in the mid-1980s, comics, a centuries-old art form, became legitimate. Prompted by a sudden influx of adult-themed and thematically heavy works like Art … ’08 learned as much while researching True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee (2021), a biography of the Marvel …
Issue: March-April 2022
What Was the Enlightenment, Really?
… It looks like something out of a science fiction novel. Architect Étienne-Louis … imagines Isaac Newton’s fantastical final resting place, is the first piece visitors see when they enter Dare to Know , Harvard Art Museums’ new installation of prints and drawings from the Enlightenment era. The …
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
… Anna Jacobson Schwartz had been a full-time economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) for more than a decade when she … made it possible to “get downtown to use the [calculating] machines.” Unlike most NBER economists, Schwartz was part of …
Issue: November-December 2023
Off the Shelf
… Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil, by Peter Stansky, Ph.D. '61 … had made a fortune in India from the opium trade, "was one of the best-known and most glamorous figures in Britain," …
Issue: September-October 2003
NFL Referee Ron Torbert Makes the Tough Calls
… Football League (NFL) referee who was crew chief at the 2022 Super Bowl. “TV doesn’t show the game the way I like to watch it. TV follows the ball. As an official, I want to follow everything else—if you are … fitness standards, enforced by an annual exam, continue to rise. “We are required to be athletes,” he explains; an …
Issue: November-December 2022
Reopening the Doors to College
… Speaking to alumni at Commencement exercises at the conclusion of her first year in office last June, Harvard President Drew Faust joined her …
Theda Skocpol , Suzanne Mettler
Issue: March-April 2009
The Living Dinosaur
… In early october 1989 , Peter Del Tredici of Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum was high on the slopes of Tian Mu Mountain Nature Reserve in western Zhejiang …
Issue: November-December 2011
Nicco Mele
… Nicco Mele owes a lot to the Internet. The new director of the Kennedy School’s … Center will play a critical role in preventing the rise of fake news, he claims, by helping audiences become …
Issue: November-December 2017