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Talking About War—During a War on Osama bin Laden
… her Jefferson Lecture, "Telling War Stories," sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities , Monday evening … impose an articulable structure on the ineffable experience of war, Faust argued, we lend it a significance and even a … it a teleology. This is why it can provide the satisfaction of meaning to its participants; this too is why it offers …
Anthologizing Yourself
… After squeezing nearly 1,000 years of creativity into the Norton Anthology of Poetry , Mary Jo Salter ’76 began … students to her: “It seems like we’re all in this enterprise together, trying to keep poetry alive.” Not that it’s …
Issue: July-August 2008
Cambridge 02138
… Linguistic Signs I read “ A Language Out of Nothing ” (by Marina Bolotnikova, May-June, page 50) with … thrilled to see that ASL has returned to Harvard, and that the University embraces what has always been obvious to me: … not now a problem as a result of the Fly Club. No surprise that, having targeted final clubs as a large …
Issue: July-August 2017
A New Light on DNA Storage
… in flash-drive memory chips could consume 10 to 100 times the anticipated supply of microchip-grade silicon . With new ways of storing information desperately needed, Winthrop …
Issue: March-April 2021
A Radcliffe Return
… her favorite section: first balcony, left side, overlooking the Klarman Hall auditorium stage. As class begins, students … who Samuels is, too. At 85 years old, the Radcliffe class of 1955 graduate is at least a half-century older than … birthday. “I think the people in the orchestra were surprised to see an old grandma,” she jokes. But when the …
Issue: January-February 2020
Where Is Harvard?
… ago , a graduate student used that question to sum up one of her earliest experiences walking through campus. As she traveled up John F. Kennedy Street, undergraduates made their way from the River Houses to the Yard, passing in and out of Lamont and Widener while freshmen streamed to and from …
Issue: January-February 2014
Ballet’s Geometry, Torqued
… with smartphone in hand, eyes fixed on an inches-wide video of the steps she should take. Two others windmill their arms, … arc and momentum just right. “It’s really unnatural!” one of them says. Supervising, choreographer Claudia Schreier …
Issue: May-June 2017
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 …
A Nearly Normal First-Year Move-In
… After a hunkered-down year, campus came to life today with the arrival of first-year students. Along with them came minivans with out-of-state license plates, family members lugging suitcases in …
"To Repair This Imperfect World"
… “Worrying seems about as necessary as breathing these days,” President Lawrence J. Bacow remarked last … address them will have to be based in deep considerations of equity and justice, of community and humanity. How do we prepare our students to …
Harvard Portrait: Ruth Okediji
… Ruth Okediji , Smith professor of law, traces her enthusiasm for intellectual-property law … to New York City from Nigeria. “I had never heard the word ‘race’ and had never been described as a black …
Issue: January-February 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
Medical Ethics Revisited
… economic stake in company-sponsored research conducted in their laboratories. The issue, under study by a committee … the June 1 debate. The school’s “Policy on Conflicts of Interest and Commitment” permits only minor exceptions to … being studied, or may receive consulting fees or honoraria of up to $10,000 annually from such companies. Those limits, …
Farewell
… brilliant leader and administrator. Geyser University Professor and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences emeritus, former acting …
Issue: January-February 2023
Salads with Panache
… The high desert and gourmet salads; experience as both a … come naturally to Erin Wade ’03, farmer, chef, and owner of Vinaigrette, a salad bistro in Santa Fe. The menu at her … (100 seats in the summer, when the patio is open) offers about 20 varieties of salad daily—and her creations …
Issue: November-December 2011