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E-mail Privacy Policy Committee Begins Work
… During the disclosure on April 2 that e-mail accounts of a resident … executive dean for administration, HMS John Gregory Morrisett, Cutting professor of computer science, School of …
Zen Brains
… join physical exercise on Americans’ to-do lists and among their doctors’ recommendations. So says a team of researchers whose findings suggest that meditation prevents age-related thinning in parts of the brain. In recent decades, many scientific studies …
Issue: May-June 2006
A Sportive Spring
… Softball The softballers (19-21, 11-1 Ivy) tore through the Ivy competition to win the league title easily. Seven …
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… “Never relinquish the feeling of your first day at Harvard, or when spring at … acquire, finance, and eventually cash out of their enterprises.” He is currently finishing a two-year term as …
Issue: September-October 2012
New EPA Administrator Gives Inaugural Speech at Harvard Law School
… Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy affirmed the Obama administration’s commitment to fighting climate … at Harvard Law School, cited past EPA successes as part of a broader argument that measures to control climate change are a necessary part of a “sound economic and global agenda.” Climate change was …
Quantity Time
… pregnant, I left my law career to become a stay-at-home mother. Initially, I was uncomfortable in my new role because … on children and house. I feared becoming a cardboard cutout of my former self. Gradually, however, I have become … not diapers. So it is with a little awkwardness and surprise that some graduates decide to stay home with their …
Issue: March-April 2003
Brevia
… not confer honorary degrees in absentia, or post mortem. The degree conferred on Gleason professor of fine arts emeritus and Cabot founding director of the …
Issue: September-October 2014
Three Cheers
… on each. Lincoln Caplan Photograph by Susan L. Carney The McCord Writing Prize (honoring David T.W. McCord ’21, … and senior research scholar at Yale Law School. He profiled Radcliffe Institute dean and civil rights historian … (January-February) and Elena Kagan, associate justice of the Supreme Court (November-December; see reader …
Issue: January-February 2023
Existence as Resistance
… “Guess who was the most photographed American of the nineteenth century.” … African and African-American Studies, prepares for the surprise on my face. As it turns out, the answer is Frederick …
Education's Limits
… I n a village in northern Tanzania in the summer of 2008, Rashmi Jasrasaria ’10 was leading a group of Tanzanian women in a discussion about HIV prevention, …
Issue: November-December 2009
Aloian Memorial Scholars
… The Harvard Alumni Association has named Sofia Cigarroa Kennedy ’19, of Austin, Texas, and KeeHup Arie Yong ’19, of Vine Grove, …
Issue: September-October 2018
Chapter & Verse
… Jacob Adler seeks a source for the assertion by Menasseh ben Israel in book 2, chapter 26, of Nishmat Hayyim [The Breath of Life], (Amsterdam, 1651), that if an elephant “kills a …
Issue: November-December 2020
Harvard Returns to Normal This Fall
… Harvard has announced that the University will essentially return to normal for the … faculty, and staff from President Lawrence Bacow, Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Claudine Gay, Harvard College dean Rakesh Khurana, and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) dean Emma Dench. The letter …
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Harvard Football Great Performances: Ric Zimmerman ’68
… In normal times , the Harvard football team and its hardy followers would be … final-play heartbreaker for Harvard at the Stadium. Instead of dwelling on such misfortune, let us recall another … without games, football correspondent Dick Friedman reprises past Crimson glories: epic plays, players, and …
Jefferson's Conundrum
… On Christmas Day, 1801, Thomas Jefferson, then president of both the United States of America and the American Philosophical Society, received …
Issue: July-August 2009