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Harvardians Short-listed for National Book Awards
… Book Award categories today. In nonfiction, Kemper professor of American history Jill Lepore was nominated for Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin. A Bancroft Prize …
Scientific Ambitions
… ”), but a claim has been staked to a significant chunk of turf. The University’s Task Force on Science and Technology, … a neurobiologist, on April 28 recommended that a “group of initiatives be clustered together in Allston, within two …
Issue: July-August 2005
An E-privacy Policy
… e-mail accounts to find a purported leak, Faust said the University had “highly inadequate” policies and … The task force, chaired by David J. Barron, Green professor of public law, has recommended adoption of a single, …
Issue: May-June 2014
“What Are You?”
… Most bluntly , the question was, "What are you?" Usually posed by a … me most. I dismissed the jibes from my young head in favor of more intriguing occupations, such as making the bathtub … take joyrides into Chicago from the 'burbs. But a new wave of ethnic insecurity washed over me as I fielded more …
A Bloodbath, Averted
… she worked in a school, and, after more studies and a few other stops, where she ran a social-service foundation’s office for more than a decade, as the country became a … violence swept South Africa: A chance remark by a police officer—“Zulus are attacking all the foreigners”—overheard …
Issue: September-October 2013
Mesoamerican Notes
… Next to it stand what looks like a falcon, and a pair of monkeys with O-shaped mouths. Inches away, an alligator, … A smiling, seated man wears a hat and a heavy necklace. There are shells and fish and lizards and a squat … stranger figurines too: a dog riding on the back of a cow, and a creature that looks half-anteater, half-pig. …
Issue: March-April 2016
Chapter & Verse
… words attributed to Jane Austen: “Teach us that we may feel the importance of every hour, every minute, as it passes.” Eliot Kieval, intrigued by the famous assertion “I disapprove of [sometimes, disagree with ] what you say, but I will …
Issue: September-October 2013
South by North Harvard
… Might the University's center of gravity move one day from Harvard Yard south to the Charles River? Perhaps, if some of Harvard's options for academic growth over the next …
A Life in Harmonica
… It was the night before a final exam and Scott Albert Johnson ’92 … friend reminded him a few years ago. He is, however, one of the country’s finest harmonica players—known for a distinctly melodic approach and mastery of the “overblow” technique, which allows him to hit notes …
Issue: May-June 2021
Green Genes
… Renovation of the Fogg Art Museum complex at 32 Quincy Street got a green light this spring, signaling the beginning of a new phase for University projects in Cambridge that …
Issue: May-June 2010
Sports Wrap
… Squash The women’s team (12-0, 6-0 Ivy) had an undefeated season … 16-0 season in which she lost only three games, two of them in the CSA individual final. The men (5-4, 4-2 Ivy) … the NCAA 157-pound championship, defeating Chase Pami of California Polytechnic, 6-4, in the final. O’Connor’s …
Issue: May-June 2010
Cambridge 02138
… weapons, it is an unrealistic prospect considering that the genie is out of the bottle. On top of that, despite their incredibly dangerous nature, humanity …
Issue: May-June 2014
Orderly Living
… In the middle ages , as now, following rules could give comfort in the chaos of life. Shown here are all six pages of an illuminated manuscript offering medical and dietary …
Issue: March-April 2012
Under (Green) Wraps
… Nominally, Harvard’s official color is crimson. But this summer, a lot of the place went green—with numerous sites swaddled in or … huge first stage of developing the commercial “enterprise research campus” in Allston , the hard hats’ good times …
Issue: September-October 2019
Cambridge 02138
… Genocide," I abandoned it. Jonathan Shaw's article " The Great Global Experiment " (November-December 2002, page … plus a slightly cut and lightened and sharpened version of the rest, ought to be sent in packages of five to all … or not, are "zealous" (read: religious), then it is no surprise that many both within and without today's empires find …
Issue: January-February 2003