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Fong of Ping-Pong
… The orange ball, clicking in its relentless, stuttering rhythm, is bigger now. Last fall the game of table tennis adopted a new official ball, 40 millimeters in diameter, to replace the …
"Of Faith and Citizenship"
… I am one of you . But I am also one of "them." What do I mean? When I am told that this is a …
Issue: July-August 2002
Not Made for Walkin'
… Less a fête for the feet than a feast for the eyes, much of the haute … extruded steel, Cataldo explains, a material also on the rise in transforming the world of architecture and the urban …
Issue: March-April 2016
Baccalaureate 2013: A Life of “Running Toward...”
… “I wish for you …,” President Drew Faust told the graduating class of 2013 in her May 28 Baccalaureate address, “lives of running toward ”—a theme with resonances of both a …
The Horror and the Beauty
… A glaring anomaly stares out from the curriculum vitae of Maria Tatar, whose 10 scholarly … from words on the page, an admittedly speculative enterprise. This approach has led her to consider magical thinking …
Issue: November-December 2007
A More Generous, Capacious America
… When Werner Sollors was a boy, growing up among the ruins of postwar Germany, he had at best an indistinct idea of the distant country he would spend his adult life trying …
Issue: January-February 2025
The Freshmen Convene
… Fresh from their first day of fall-term course shopping, the class of 2016 gathered for the College’s fourth annual Freshman …
In Allston Planning, the Silly Season
… Expansion of the undergraduate student body, construction of as many as … in Cambridge, not Allston: those were just a few of the surprises reported in a Boston Globe article in early September, …
Issue: November-December 2003
Hub of the (Undergraduate) Universe
… The Inn at Harvard, shown in late January, is being … renewal during the ensuing 15 months, following completion of pilot projects at Quincy and Leverett. Dunster’s diaspora … buildings and a renovated frame house (former home of Expository Writing) on Prescott Street; and the …
Issue: March-April 2014
Leaders of their Class
… Members of the College class of 2006 marched to their Baccalaureate service on Tuesday, June 6, behind their …
Issue: July-August 2006
From the Archives: The Wired Society
… The Internet’s applications, the fortunes made (Amazon, … victim, here, from the dot-com bust at the beginning of the millennium), and now the rising threats to privacy, … empower consumers or further concentrate commercial enterprise? And how will society cope with abuse of the new …
Pamelyn Bennett
… When Pamelyn Bennett began working at the National Airport Marriott Hotel, in Washington, D.C., … she “decided to make a few phone calls and get a little bit of help for them,” arranging a driver and providing … Born and raised in Peabody, Massachusetts, she spent much of her childhood at Temple Beth Shalom, where her mother …
Issue: November-December 2024
Conflict in the Stacks
… Library history used to be the sleepiest of all academic disciplines. Compared with the gripping narratives of military or political history, it offered a fairly banal …
Issue: November-December 2003
In Search of Spontaneity
… Almost every day for the past six months at approximately 1 p.m. , I’ve taken our … to swerve away to maintain my social distance. Darting out of a stranger’s way might scare away the cardinal I was … blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight. …
Leading Man
… as “an entertainer, a mere mummer,” primarily in live theater, for 40 years. As president of the Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), celebrating its … special-effect make-up and chemicals (e.g., smoke and fog machines). Most pressing, Wyman reports, “is maintaining …
Issue: May-June 2013