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Courses of Study
… Perusing the course catalog for first-year Harvard Medical School … that much education on how to talk with patients at the end of their lives,” he says. “Interacting with a patient and … students in the school’s M.D. program, the course was part of a first-year curriculum that concentrates on how the …
Issue: January-February 2006
Probing the Microbial World Within Us
… The most versatile chemists in the world live inside us. Trillions of microbes, of several hundred species, an aggregation containing 150 …
Issue: July-August 2021
Circus Art
… Circus: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs illustrates the charms and thrills of this traveling entertainment during its heyday in Europe … in 1768; another would debut in Newport, Rhode Island. Each offered equestrian feats. As the phenomenon grew, especially …
Issue: January-February 2015
Questions of Character
… doing in a Harvard Business School course? And why is the professor talking about students’ “internal struggle?” … life that surrounds him.” When leaders encounter complex crises, Badaracco argues, flexibility may be more important …
Issue: July-August 2006
Planting Seeds of Culture
… set out on an ambitious journey to photograph members of every Native American tribe in the United States, with the hope of shedding light on the lives and experiences of Native …
Better-than-Balanced Books
… Faster revenue growth , plus expenses rising at almost the same rate, yielded an operating surplus of $43.6 million for Harvard’s fiscal year ended June 30, up … as usual, in November), Berman pointed to several surprises. In a competitive environment, federally sponsored …
Issue: November-December 2005
Harvard Sues Over Funding Freeze
… On Monday, Harvard filed suit against the federal government, sending the battle between the … the established procedures for curtailing campus violations of civil rights, such as antisemitism. The demands imposed … later reported that the Trump administration was surprised that Harvard publicly released the letter. In …
Off the Shelf
… Essays on History, by Bernard Bailyn, Adams University Professor emeritus (Knopf, $28). A superb argument for anthologizing essays, here by the preeminent historian of early America, on two themes: … in Modern History,” an illuminating dissection of the rise of and uses of quantification, spatial relationships …
Issue: March-April 2015
Events of Note
… FILM. This April, African cinema will take center stage at the Harvard Film Archive, beginning with African Film … April 28 and 30, Senegalese director Med Hondo, recipient of this year's McMillian Fellowship for Distinguished … Filmmaking, will be at Harvard to attend screenings of his works. The series Five Modern Directors , meanwhile, …
A Matter of Style
… has infiltrated such unlikely enclaves as Hollywood and the National Football League; now it is making inroads on … to sociology. His studies provided the basis for much of his fashion philosopy. "I'm obsessed with gender and what … wear I try to juxtapose masculine and feminine, hard and soft. I like it, for example, when women wear a pair of hard …
Issue: September-October 2001
The Storyteller
… his nervous first meeting with his faculty adviser, professor of mathematical statistics Frederick Mosteller. At the end, … meeting, above, illustrates both. Readers may be surprised by some of Light's discoveries about diversity. …
Athletes of Winter
… Women’s Hockey At midseason, the defending national champion Crimson stickwomen (13-2-2, … Mark Mazzolini called the icemen’s best overall performance of the season. Brothers Dominic and Steve Moore (at left) … a detached retina in his right eye put him temporarily out of action. Before his injury, Clemente set a school record …
Fueling Our Future
… for energy, on which we depend for health and prosperity, rises all the time: oil and natural gas to heat our homes; electricity … for our cars and trucks. Fossil fuels provide 80 percent of the energy that powers civilization. The more fuel we …
Issue: May-June 2006
Off the Shelf
… On the jacket, a detail of an idealized image of a chief (or … hypnotized him; and he judged that American football "comprised brief episodes of violent activity interrupted by what …
Issue: July-August 2004
"Hot Time in the Old Town": New York City's Deadly Heat Wave of 1896
… Most of us enduring this summer's heat waves will feel lucky … after reading this book. Edward P. Kohn ’90's Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt is concerned …