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Neighbors on Edge
… Below, a Harvard rejoinder. More than five years of discussions and negotiations between Harvard and neighbors about the University's proposed Center for Government and … as two buildings, not one, after complaints about the loss of open space behind the Graduate School of Design. That …
Issue: September-October 2002
A Difficult Defense
… When the Harvard men’s basketball team fell to Holy Cross … to turn the ball over 24 times and knocked Harvard out of the Associated Press’s Top -25. The match-up raised … could Harvard turn to as a reliable ball handler? Was the offense excessively dependent on senior Wesley Saunders—and …
Biographer and Booklover Justin Kaplan: 1925-2014
… Prize and National Book Award for his first biography of Mark Twain, died on March 2 . His biographies of Walt Whitman and Lincoln Steffens, and his other books about life and lives in America attracted readers …
King, Kirschner Named University Professors
… biologist Marc Kirschner have been named University Professors. King becomes the Weatherhead University Professor, succeeding the late Samuel P. Huntington. Kirschner …
Harvard Happenings
… Seasonal The Game, #129 www.gocrimson.com/sports/fball/index November 17 at Harvard Stadium. Harvard Glee Club http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/boxoffice 617-496-2222 November 16 at 8 p.m. Harvard-Yale …
Issue: November-December 2012
Sports in Brief
… Hockey Heading into February and the sixty-fifth annual Beanpot Tournament, the men’s hockey … Lawrence, and a 5-2 triumph over Boston College, in front of a sold-out crowd at Bright-Landry Hockey Center, that snapped the Eagles’ 10-game win streak. But a series of bad losses on the road in January—including one to an …
Issue: March-April 2017
Extracurriculars
… Seasonal The Farmers’ Market at Harvard … October 25. In Cambridge: Tuesdays, noon-6 p.m. Corner of Oxford and Kirkland streets, adjacent to Memorial Hall. In Allston: Fridays, 3-7 p.m. Corner of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue. Theater …
Issue: September-October 2011
Powering China with Wind Alone
… electricity needs through 2030 with wind power alone. In their study, the cover story in the September 11 issue of Science , lead author Michael McElroy, Butler professor of environmental studies, and colleagues from …
Harvard 42, Dartmouth 21
… Gino Gordon had a bravura day at the Stadium on Saturday, rushing for 119 yards and three … for 120 yards and two touchdowns, the third and fourth of a rapidly blossoming Crimson career. Not since the 1999 … eight carries, averaging almost 15 yards per carry. Ten of his 12 touches on Saturday produced either a first down …
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
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
Documentarian Sought
… interested in doing a documentary on his great-uncle, the late cardiologist and Harvard clinical professor of medicine Paul Dudley White, A.B. 1908, M.D. ’11, S.D. …
Issue: March-April 2020
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
Football: Harvard 41, Holy Cross 35
… Waking up on the morning after, players and fans on both sides might have … Holy Cross missed a field goal try, and Harvard finished off an astonishing comeback with a 17-yard touchdown run by … the game goes into the books as the longest in 140 years of Harvard football. Led by freshman quarterback Pete …
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