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“Building Strong Communities”
… Margaret M. Wang ’09, the new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), … for the organization for nearly a decade, while working professionally in business strategy and development “across a …
Issue: September-October 2018
“To Be True to Our Complicated History”
… Midway through the list of names was when the crowd fell fully silent. Some … around the outdoor podium where Janet Halley, Royall professor of law, was reading out the names of slaves who’d …
Jumping for Joy
… bouncing around, defying gravity, just feels good. And then there are those with real ambition. “I had this idea … says John Sequeira. So, the athletic Cambridge father of four would go to the Sky Zone on a Friday or Saturday night to practice devoid of cavorting kids (including his). He’d even taken a few …
Issue: January-February 2023
Bob Slate Stationer To Reopen
… In March of this year, brothers Justin and Mallory Slate closed what was then the … opened the store in the 1930s to supply the paper needs of Cambridge residents and Harvard students and faculty. …
Scrums, Rucks, Mauls
… minutes, in two 40-minute halves), you may be familiar with the scrum , a fun word to say, and, for the uninitiated, a … opposing team, all the while attempting to gain control of the ball (a chunkier, more ovoid version of a football) … rugby team at the U.S. Naval Academy. “But you’d be surprised—there’s also tremendous technique involved. At Navy, …
Issue: September-October 2013
Cautious Optimism
… From the start , it was clear there was something a little … energy, boosted in great part by the fiftieth-reunion class of 1968’s bright pink “Resist” armbands, was exceptionally … they’d settled down in the tent for the morning portion of the program, Lizabeth Cohen, the departing dean of the …
Princess Not-So-Charming
… “Fairy tales have always tapped into the subconscious, bringing to light children’s deepest … brought that tenet into the twenty-first century. The first of a trilogy for middle-grade readers (ages nine and up), … Sophie, with her waist-long blond hair and her dreams of becoming a princess, and her friend Agatha, an …
Issue: May-June 2013
Harper Lee, Crime Reporter
… at this magazine, has since written widely and well, for The New Yorker , The New York Times , and other … like Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (Knopf, $26.95), her first book, on the dual … in three counties knew that, and some were surprised no one had done it sooner—but to understand the …
Issue: May-June 2019
Music and Language, Reconciled
… Readers of the New York Review of Books who are also lovers of music—and who have reached a certain age—will know that music-lovers in the past have been able to read the writings of some musical …
Issue: March-April 2022
Jaju’s Premiere Pierogies
… ratio. Premier pierogies—Polish dumplings—must leap all these culinary hurdles to become the ultimate comfort food. “We have family recipes,” answers Vanessa White, part of the sister-duo who own Jaju Pierogi , “but we also know that a lot of the magic is in the feel.” Their eggy dough’s elasticity …
Issue: July-August 2021
President Maia Sandu's Speech
… Dear graduates, It’s a big honor for me to address you at the end of this amazing Kennedy School experience and at the start … from the Kennedy School of Government, I was equally surprised and excited, but I would have never thought that one …
News Briefs
… 1 , Ron Unz ’83 delivered petitions for himself and four other candidates seeking places on the ballot for the annual election of new members to Harvard’s Board of Overseers. (The list of Harvard Alumni Association …
Issue: March-April 2016
Brevia
… Decanal Departure Allan M. Brandt, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) since January 2008, stepped down …
Issue: May-June 2012
“No more pencils, no more books…”
… Even in elementary school, one suspects, the incursion of technology—tablets, laptops, … now rendered all but obsolete students’ venerable end-of-year ditty: “No more pencils/no more books/no more …
Issue: May-June 2019
University People
… Portraiture Project , meant to include important members of the community, has now produced its likeness of the late S. Allen Counter, founding director of the …
Issue: July-August 2018