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An “Urban Farmhouse”
… Billed as an “urban farmhouse” that pays homage to the chef’s family farm, Puritan & Company is the newest member of the Inman Square restaurant scene. Two long tables for group dining set the tone in the center of the open room; we sat at a two-person table near the …
Issue: July-August 2013
Chapter & Verse
… John Endicott asks whether Le Corbusier did in fact declare that “Democracy is a … narrator is writing to the woman he loves toward the close of the year. One line, she recalls, runs something like: “My … a June 1999 column by Ellen Goodman containing a variant of the sentence, and Henry Godfrey unearthed a version …
Issue: May-June 2018
Harvard Campaign Reaches $5 Billion
… The University has announced that The Harvard Campaign had recorded $5 billion in gifts and pledges as of December 31: nearly 77 percent of the $6.5-billion goal … , the end of the fiscal year. The gains since are not a surprise: they include the $350-million gift to the Harvard …
Lives in Art
… They were called to meals by a Grand Banks schooner’s … this,” said Warren “Renny” Little ’55 during a recent tour of his family’s summer retreat, an eighteenth-century … the stuff,” he said—his parents’ pioneering collection of American folk art and antiques that still crowd the …
Issue: July-August 2014
Football 2021: Harvard 24, Cornell 10
… It was not a thing of beauty. At times it was downright ugly. But at afternoon’s end on Saturday at the Stadium, the Harvard football team had preserved its … done this season so far. It took us a while to get adjusted offensively. Eventually we got into a rhythm. I’m really …
“Unconditionally Relentless”
… women’s basketball head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith gave each of her players a bracelet. These were not merely mementos; the significance lay in the … reminder, about the mindset she expected from them. In six of the last eight seasons, the Harvard women have received …
College, 9 to 5
… naive high-schooler, I foolishly believed my teachers when they described to me the wonders of college—a legendary paradise where intelligent … and out from under adult supervision, they mastered the art of cool. They read Tolstoy and Dumas. They wrote poetry …
Justice for All
… How do leaders of countries emerging from civil war, political repression, … religious violence, or economic collapse come to terms with the past and create a viable future? Harvard's newest … solutions. Leaders can use these to prepare for--or avoid--crises." "Harvard's Project on Justice is trusted and …
Getting General Education Right?
… Following a review committee’s sharp criticisms of the undergraduate General Education curriculum (Gen Ed) … are also the hardest to teach well.” The latter problem arises from multiple causes discussed in the committee’s …
Ice Water and Rockets
… Last fall , the Ivy League women’s soccer championship was decided in the final seconds of the season’s last game. Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia … overtime periods unfolded, although Harvard was dominating offensively, outshooting Columbia, 9-2. Then, with a mere …
Issue: September-October 2009
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
Marc Hauser “Engaged in Research Misconduct”
… The division of investigative oversight in the Office of Research Integrity (ORI), in the U.S. …
“A Vast Slave Society”
… Throughout last Friday’s daylong conference at the Radcliffe Institute on slavery and its historical ties … historian Sven Beckert phrased it Friday, “the violence of the slave trader, the Middle Passage, the auction block, … at Yale, Princeton, Brown, William & Mary, the University of Virginia, Rutgers, Georgetown— and Harvard—as well as …
Peter Thiel on Why Monopolies Matter
… In conversations about the economy, monopoly can often be a dirty word. But … Peter Thiel shared his far more iconoclastic view of the business world at an event at Harvard Business School …
“Once Upon a Time” in Translation
… Most American kids have probably never heard of Tonke Dragt’s The Letter for the King —a fantasy tale of good and evil, … English are. “On the children’s side,” he adds, “I’d be surprised if it was 1 percent.” Freudenheim’s road to this …
Issue: November-December 2015