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Celebratory Meals
… establishments near Harvard Square, look to Up Stairs at the Pudding, Harvest, and Rialto. Up Stairs at the Pudding (617-864-1933) would be our first choice because of its unique, warm, and colorful décor. The forest-green walls of the high-ceilinged dining room are plastered with posters …
“Get Jobs! Learn How to Do Something.”
… There is a naïve belief [upon graduating] that you can do … anything, that the world is your oyster,” says Yule Caise of Santa Monica, a writer-director and producer of films, new media, and television shows (perhaps best …
Issue: September-October 2011
Alex Ross Wins MacArthur
… named a MacArthur Fellow. Ross is a regular columnist for the New Yorker and his encyclopedic first book, The Rest Is … Critics Circle Award for criticism and made numerous best-of-the-year lists, including those of the New York Times and Washington Post . In awarding him …
EEA Privacy Disclosures - Website and Mobile Applications
… technologies. For more information regarding our use of cookies and similar technologies, see the “Cookies and Similar Technologies” section below; … a map feature; and Mobile Device Sensor Information: Some of our mobile applications may use various sensors and …
Red Bull and Swedish Fish
… shortly after watching my poor fan concede defeat and jump off my windowsill that I realized that summer in Cambridge … and stifling, scorching and sizzling. But it’s not just the sun or the overuse of alliteration that heats the place up. No, the main source …
GSAS Centennial Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Issue: July-August 2012
Chapter & Verse
… Lorna Hallal seeks the title and author of a work that describes children … , “I remember reading somewhere that after the 1746 Battle of Culloden, a British officer was informed that a mother …
Issue: January-February 2014
Crew Coach in Treatment for Blood Cancer
… Harry Parker , the nation's most successful heavyweight crew coach, is … treatment for myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a type of blood cancer, according to a report in the Boston Globe … to leukemia. Next year, the 75-year-old Parker, subject of a Harvard Magazine cover article in 1996, will coach the …
Radcliffe Institute Fellow Trethewey Named Poet Laureate
… Natasha Trethewey, a 2001 Radcliffe Institute Fellow , has been named poet laureate of the United States. According to the announcement from the Library of Congress , quoting James H. Billington, the current …
Chapter & Verse
… Dennis De Witt hopes someone can identify “a song or bit of doggerel last heard, I think, in the 1960s, suggesting that there was nothing left for the … Modern Movement to discover because, in the approximation of the refrain that lingers in my mind, ‘It was all done in …
Issue: November-December 2008
Under Wraps
… As planning proceeds for the conversion of the former Holyoke Center into the Smith … and face lift—a formidable challenge in the tight confines of Harvard Square. Stage One is the staging itself: here, …
Issue: November-December 2015
Cambridge 02138
… I don't have any." He jokes about being a "minority" at the HAA because he earned his undergraduate degree from … last three decades. "Who would have thought the president of the HAA never went to the College?" Brock asks. "I make a … with shared interests, such as high tech, social enterprise, gay rights, or African-American identity. "We want to …
Issue: September-October 2002
"Only" a Law School Man
… I don't have any." He jokes about being a "minority" at the HAA because he earned his undergraduate degree from … last three decades. "Who would have thought the president of the HAA never went to the College?" Brock asks. "I make a … with shared interests, such as high tech, social enterprise, gay rights, or African-American identity. "We want to …
Issue: September-October 2002
Mapping Music
… spent this past academic year as a composer in residence at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, has developed a … an orbifold (which can have from two to an infinite number of dimensions, depending on the number of notes being played at once), Tymoczko’s system shows how …
Issue: January-February 2007
James Mickens
… explaining how comedians Hannibal Buress and Louis C.K. get their laughs: Buress’s high “joke density” versus Louis … C.K.’s slow-build storytelling. For Mickens, an associate professor of computer science known for his snappy, engaging, and …
Issue: March-April 2016