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Chapter and Verse
… Jessica Pierce asks whether anyone can identify the origin of the expression “to … an animal.” More queries from the archive: A description of nationalism as “the religion of an extremely high …
Issue: July-August 2011
Tom Reiss ’86 Wins Pulitzer for Biography
… For telling the long-overlooked story of Alex Dumas, the French … Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Crown) “a compelling story of a forgotten …
Chapter and Verse
… writes, “Years ago, I believe I saw a silent-film scene of a woman, seen from behind, desperately pounding her fists … and finally collapsing to her knees. Can anyone identify the movie?” Jerry Kelley hopes that someone can identify a … ’56, has now answered his own question: “In the coverage of the fiftieth anniversary of Harvard’s triumph over Yale, …
Issue: May-June 2019
Mentorship
… Harvard Magazine enables us to mentor a new generation of writers. We’ve had the privilege of working with some remarkable students over the years—many …
University People
… Services Chief Lisa Hogarty, most recently chief operating officer of the Columbia University Medical Center and previously …
Issue: July-August 2010
Connections and Competition in Asia
… to Hong Kong and South Korea over spring break I had the privilege of seeing how much Harvard means to our alumni in other parts of the world. More than 400 alumni gathered for a reception …
Issue: May-June 2013
Paul J. Finnegan ’75, M.B.A. ’82, Elected to Harvard Corporation
… The University announced today that Paul J. Finnegan ’75, M.B.A. ’82, a current member of the Board of Overseers , has been elected a member of the Harvard …
Oasis in Limestone and Brick
… Amid the aging bodegas, discount shops, and anonymous towers of … and irregular, arresting yet unobtrusive. “It’s a function of wanting to make something that fits as comfortably as …
Issue: September-October 2011
Programmed for Success?
… Harvard men’s basketball player Thomas Mannix ’81 recalls, the team arrived in Hawaii for the Rainbow Classic amid a year of transition. That season, Ivy League freshmen had become … had scheduled early-season matchups with the University of Massachusetts, Boston College, South Carolina, Stanford, …
Chapter and Verse
… Winthrop Thies would like both the name of the U.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote, … in an opinion from, he thinks, the mid 1930s, and the name of the case being decided, which involved the federal estate …
Issue: July-August 2010
Harvard and Higher Education in Vietnam
… On the agenda for President Barack Obama’s visit to Vietnam … party for the Fulbright University Vietnam : the first nonprofit, academically independent institution of higher education in the country. Its development was …
Fahrenthold, Whitehead, and Desmond Win Pulitzer Prizes
… transparent journalism in political campaign coverage,” The Washington Post’ s David Fahrenthold ’00 has been … Railroad , and Matthew Desmond, Loeb associate professor of the social sciences, received the award in nonfiction …
“A Fighting Faith”
… The late Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ’38, JF ’43, LL.D. … a lot (President Neil L. Rudenstine said he covered “a cast of characters as capacious as Aida ’s without the elephants”). It is no surprise that he was a prolific correspondent. Sons Andrew ’70 …
Issue: March-April 2014
Harvard Commencement 2017
… Sherry Turkle ’69, Ph.D. ’76, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé professor of the social studies of science and technology at MIT, and …
Issue: May-June 2017
Anti-obesity Drugs within Reach?
… Researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have identified two drugs … brown fat, which burns energy through the release of heat. Such drugs have the potential to become a powerful tool in the fight against obesity. One of the drugs (tofacitinib) is already FDA-approved and on …