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Winter Sports in Progress
… Ice Hockey The men (8-11-2 overall, 6-8-1 ECAC) continued strong play that often has come up a goal or two short. By midseason, their only Ivy League win was a 4-1 November defeat of Yale. Yet, right after exams, the Crimson showed their …
Issue: March-April 2004
Report on Harvard University Police Department Released
… Drew Faust last year to review "how best to assure the strongest possible relations and mutual understanding" between the Harvard University Police Department and the University's "highly diverse community" has issued its …
Behind the Scenes: Chance reunion between old chums
… reunite after 39 years. Writing my March-April feature profile “ Diagnosis by Fiction ,” on novelist Stephen Bergman … about 40 years but hadn’t seen or spoken with him for 39 of them. As fellow writers, Steve and I met in the early 1980s … profile narrates how literary celebrity took Steve by surprise and changed his life forever. At those PEN New England …
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… Because our printer made a mistake in manufacturing the May-June issue, many readers who should have received … have been reprinted and mailed to the affected readers--all of you, we hope--along with the current Harvard Magazine . … other animals without animal research. So it comes as a surprise that editorial policy would allow such an ad to be …
From the Field to the Front Office
… you doing here?” That question ate at her during her year there—should she try to play internationally and earn a WNBA … she find a new career? Tuesday evening, Gelman—now CEO of Kraft Analytics Group—joined four other Harvard stars … in Israel. At HBS, Patriots owner Robert Kraft watched one of her presentations and hired her. Now, Gelman says she is …
At Odds
… University leaders had planned to chart many of Harvard’s future paths this spring. A revised College … reformulated during two years of study, would come before the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) for debate and … sphere depends on collegiality, on a sense of shared enterprise, on a commitment to listening as well as speaking, and …
Issue: May-June 2005
Springtime with Mass Audubon
… The nature-based conservation organization Mass Audubon … in the City Festival (Magazine Beach, Cambridge, April 12) offers music, food, and a scavenger hunt. Participants can … birds along the Charles River, learn about the habits of urban wildlife, and find ways to help mitigate the …
Issue: May-June 2025
No Sleepy Coastal Town
… Settled in 1623, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is among the oldest cities in the United States. Historic buildings … reason to visit this coastal city, especially in the dead of winter, is its thriving contemporary arts and cultural … the winter.” Home to more than 22,000 residents, the city offers a disproportionately high number of arts venues and …
Issue: January-February 2024
Schooled in Life
… As the College celebrates its 375th anniversary, we asked members of this year’s twenty-fifth reunion class how their … become—and what Harvard could do to improve the education of undergraduates today and in the future. “Have Big Lives.” …
Issue: September-October 2011
Kenneth C. Frazier and Joseph Y. Bae to Join Harvard Corporation
… Frazier J.D. ’78 and Joseph Y. Bae ’94 will become fellows of the Harvard Corporation, the senior governing board, the … is former chairman and CEO of biopharmaceutical enterprise Merck & Co., where he was initially hired as general …
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Presidential Priorities
… President Lawrence H. Summers distributed a letter to the Harvard community setting forth key issues and priorities for the academic year... President Lawrence H. Summers distributed a letter to the Harvard community setting forth key issues and …
Forging a New Bond
… to build an adult relationship with your parents. Leave the past behind. Many people cling to old complaints about … adulthood, says Susan Newman, a psychologist and author of Nobody's Baby Now. The twenties are the perfect time to … calmly but firmly, as one adult to another — to lay off. Be specific, Newman advises: "Say, 'Stop telling me …
Issue: March-April 2004
Quantum SCIENCE Quarters
… Interior demolition work proceeded during the summer at 60 Oxford Street, formerly a Harvard computer facility, as it is completely renovated into the new home for the quantum science and engineering doctoral program, …
Issue: September-October 2022
Commencement Confetti
… did double duty— nailing his Senior English Address during the Morning Exercises but also, literally, singing for his … Jobim (a treat for Fernando Henrique Cardoso, in lieu of the usual classical selection). During the Phi Beta Kappa … , somewhat surprisingly, sang “We Are…” by Ysaye Barnwell (of Sweet Honey in the Rock); its charming refrain is well …
Issue: July-August 2016
Shakespeare’s Uncanny Presence
… Shakespeare in Bloomsbury (Yale, $35) on a convivial note. The latest inventive work by Marjorie Garber, Kenan research professor of English and of visual and environmental studies, explores …
Issue: November-December 2023