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What I Read at War
… Virgil, Eclogue IX, lines 11-13 ...but songs of ours Avail among the War-God's weapons, Lycidas, As much as Chaonian doves, … they say, when the eagle comes. Sarajevo in the summer of 1995 came as close to Dante's inner circle of hell as any …
Ronald Kessler
… In on-line biomedical databases, Ronald Kessler ranks as the most widely cited author in psychiatry and psychology. Yet Kessler, professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School, is neither …
Issue: November-December 2005
Hirum Hunn Awards
… Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarship Awards, presented by the Harvard College Office of Admissions and Financial Aid. The awards are named for …
Issue: September-October 2004
Orchid Bees In Flight
… Amid turbulen t conditions, orchid bees in flight prevent themselves from rolling by extending their rear legs. … An orchid bee's use of its rear legs to maintain stability in turbulent … clear in this slow-motion video. All videos courtesy of Stacey Combes/The Combes Laboratory … Video clips reveal …
Issue: November-December 2009
David Williams
… and income affect health, that’s clear. But why, as is the case, should the most-advantaged black women in the United States—college-educated, relatively well-off—experience higher rates of infant mortality, obesity, and hypertension than the …
Issue: May-June 2007
Play Ball
… Baseball Harvard (21-20-1 overall) finished the Ivy season with the league’s best record, 14-6, winning … Princeton, with the Tigers now leading that skein, 6-5. Softball The softballers had a 20-24 overall record and a 6-8 mark in Ivy …
Issue: July-August 2006
Soccer Summary
… Mens Soccer The Crimson (6-4, 1-1 Ivy) came back twice to beat Yale, … the game-winner, was twice named Ivy League Rookie of the Week in the early going and was Ivy League Player of the Week once. Captain Charles Altcheck 07, the reigning …
Issue: November-December 2006
Chapter & Verse
… conduct our lives in such a way that if everyone were to do the same, the world would be a better place.” Tilden Euster … his delightful ‘Wild Bird Hickok and His Friends,’ writes of French dime novels set in le Far-Ouest: ‘I hope that I … Karen Myers and Nikos Pappas identified this fragment of a poem from Isaac Watts’s collection Horae Lyricae …
Issue: July-August 2007
A Dean's Summer Reading
… In a Q-and-A with the Boston Globe this week, Harvard Law School Dean Martha … Allegra Goodman ’89 and Gish Jen ’77, RF ’02; a biography of Louis Brandeis; short stories by Alice Munro; and a book … school, has written a book. And she says she finds works of fiction just as important for her work as a law professor …
Practice Makes Perfect
… Get in shape for the national elections by doing your duty as a Harvard … listing candidates for Overseer and for elected director of the Harvard Alumni Association will arrive in mid April … Harvey '71, M.B.A. '74. Baltimore. Chair and CEO, The Enterprise Foundation. Walter H. Morris Jr. '73, M.B.A. '75. …
Two Harvardians Win MacArthur Fellowships
… Two Harvard alumnae are among the 2024 MacArthur Fellows announced today. Dorothy Roberts, … social service systems. A faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania since 2012, she holds named professorships in the law school and the department of …
Spring Lax Snapshots
… Lacrosse The men’s team (4-2, 1-0 Ivy) took down Penn, 13-8, in their … overtime) and after that performance was named Ivy Rookie of the Week for the second time. The lax women (3-5, 1-0 … Junior goalie Kathryn Tylander earned Ivy Defensive Player of the Week honors for her 12-save effort in the game. …
Issue: May-June 2006
In China, Slowly Reassembling Lives
… Among those dispatching from China in the wake of this month's devastating earthquake is Geoffrey Fowler ’00, formerly a Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow …
At Harvard Medical International, Changes Afoot
… Harvard Medical International (HMI), a nonprofit subsidiary of Harvard Medical School that provides medical consulting … to international clients, may be facing major changes. In the organization's 2007 annual report, released last month, …
High Italian
… Italian food has been so thoroughly assimilated into the American diet that it no longer counts as “ethnic” fare. … sumptuous Italian restaurant like Mamma Maria to remind us of the varied regional cuisines of a culture that takes eating as seriously as it does …
Issue: September-October 2005