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“Write Your Own Songs”
… This Sunday, two recent graduates will be going for the gold at the ninety-second Academy Awards ceremony. Gabe … ’19 and Joshuah Campbell ’16 collaborated on the creation of “Stand Up,” written for Harriet— last year’s biopic … who can be heard performing the song during the credits of Harriet. Fox-Peck produced the song along with Will …
Chapter & Verse
… Pat Donovan hopes that someone can provide her with the original source of the phrase “…and she wiped the ambassador’s nose”; the … one day. Dorothy Richardson requests an identification of the poetic fragment with which William Dunlap closes his …
Issue: January-February 2009
Bill Jaeger
… with a degree in Russian studies, he planned to work at the Russian Research Center and then go to graduate school. But with workers in his office and across Harvard unionizing,he was drawn in.“I saw … now live in Arlington, where he enjoys watching European professional soccer with their two sons and plays …
Issue: July-August 2013
Butterfly Wings in a New Light
… butterfly harmlessly, conventional wisdom advises, softly pinch its wings together. Because butterflies depend on taste receptors on their … when we look at living cells, we’re often surprised.” … 20538 … A study reveals new dimensions to their …
Issue: May-June 2020
A Gift from Iwo Jima
… The New York Times recently profiled Franklin W. Hobbs III ’46, M.B.A. ’52, who as a young soldier at the Battle of Iwo Jima retrieved an envelope from the body of a …
Chapter and Verse
… much and you're finished for life." Howard Lewis Fink seeks the author of the statement "One cannot be sincere and seem so." John … about the origins of "Education should be like the moonrise, perceptible not in progress but in result," and "Ten …
Taxing Matters
… The federal tax legislation being considered in Congress as … advanced without benefit of hearings—contains a lot of surprises for higher education. At least one version of the …
Issue: January-February 2018
Make It Personal
… What to get for the gourmet girlfriend, the hard-to-please host, the spouse … a breast cancer diagnosis, when she realized the importance of pursuing true passions. Now, she delights in creating … for her loyal fans, such as Harry Potter and Game of Thrones cakes. Order custom nut-free cookies and cakes, …
Issue: November-December 2019
Throughways for Wildlife
… In the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Interstate 70 cuts from … biologists call the Mountain Corridor—a 144-mile-wide swath of mixed habitat flowing north and south between Denver and …
Issue: May-June 2011
Medicine Minus Mythmaking
… New Directions has reissued The Doctor Stories , which collects medical writings by … poems, and an autobiographical excerpt—to get at the heart of his dual career in letters and in medicine. When the … him on the path to training as a physician—and long-time professor at Harvard. (Among the sharp wisdom his mentor gave …
Issue: November-December 2018
Social Innovation Challenge
… social entrepreneurs. According to her e-mail message to the community, Provost Alan Garber and a panel of faculty experts (not yet announced) will later this month … Faust and organized by Garber and William Sahlman, D’Arbeloff-M.B.A. Class of 1955 professor of business …
Virtual Tumors
… If a single word could describe the diverse disorders collectively known as cancer, it might … be unpredictable . Trying to judge the course and prognosis of this meandering, unforgiving, and frequently fatal … is almost impossible. But Thomas Deisboeck, as director of a pioneering project to “engineer” different kinds of …
Issue: July-August 2009
Chasing Bogeys
… Few golf books have emerged from the unlikely golfing haven of Duluth, Minnesota; in fact, A Beautiful Friendship: The Joy of Chasing Bogey Golf (Calyx Press Duluth, …
Issue: May-June 2009
Branded
… Today . “As Harvard prepares to confer degrees on yet another batch of graduates Thursday, academic experts scratch their heads … institution maintains its reputational dominance in an era of academic parity. But a marketer would understand the …
Issue: November-December 2005
Harvard Presidential Search Advances
… As the committee consisting of members from the Harvard Corporation and Board of Overseers pursues the search for the successor to …