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Making Schools Work
… I n a taxi bound for the Pierre Hotel on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Thomas Kane … and deliberate, punctuated by measured pauses. The Gale professor of economics and education is careful to avoid … of data like Legos, filling in gaps, and “finding surprises.” Using federal population surveys, provided at the …
Issue: March-April 2025
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 …
Research Clusters Seek Climate Solutions
… mobilize its research and educational capacities to address the broad range of unfolding impacts? With an announcement on February 13 of … to climate threats such as increased flooding, sea-level rise, and shifts in disease impacts (including malaria). …
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
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
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
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 …
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
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
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
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
The Hack as Genius
… Earlier this year, Houghton Library announced one of the most exciting donations in its history: the Donald and … "This mournful truth is everywhere confessed,/SLOW RISES WORTH,/BY POVERTY DEPRESSED." Johnson's own rise was …
Issue: November-December 2004
William Kentridge: “In Praise of Shadows”
… The lights dim , and an excerpt of one of William Kentridge’s animated films begins. A parade of silhouette puppets marches from the left side of the screen to the right, seen in profile. …
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 …
The Data on Drama
… frequently than success—and sometimes, says assistant professor of English Derek Miller, that is a mistake. Miller, who studies theatrical history, is engaged in an experimental project he … over time, hand in hand with the well-documented rise of mega-musicals. Successful productions such as Cats …
Issue: November-December 2015