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… five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). Ballots, mailed out by … J.D.-M.B.A. ’04, Menlo Park, California. Partner, New Enterprise Associates. Shilla Kim-Parker ’04, M.B.A. ’09, New York …
Issue: March-April 2013
Chapter and Verse
… William Storrer hopes that someone can provide a source for the quotation, supposedly from Oswald Spengler’s Decline of the West, that George reads aloud near the end of the second act of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia …
Issue: September-October 2010
Chapter & Verse
… Jacob Adler asks: “In Nishmat Ḥ ayyim (“The Breath of Life,” 1651), the Dutch rabbi Menasseh ben Israel writes of strange phenomena that supposedly occur in Asia: people …
Issue: November-December 2018
John Simon
… in New York magazine—“For better or for worse, I think of myself as a highbrow”—visited Cambridge in December to discuss three recently published volumes of his collected criticism, on theater, film, and music (Applause Theatre and Cinema …
Issue: March-April 2006
Capital Planning Chief Appointed
… The University announced today that its search for a vice … Center project (a renovation and expansion of the library and archival facility, with construction of … five-year capital plan —“something that most major enterprises do”—so the Corporation can have a clear view of …
Harvard Local,
… was women, gender, and sexuality studies and whose thesis investigated gender and Harvard final clubs, made … J. Menendez Photograph by Jim Harrison In absolving us of the burden of personal perfection, Harvard inadvertently prepared us …
Issue: July-August 2005
Chapter and Verse
… Vann McGee would like to discover the origin of the following declension: “I am firm. You are … thesis that everyone in the field is seeking a definition of what makes us human, but that it is unwise to publish …
Issue: March-April 2010
Jacqueline Rossi: “Enter to Grow in Weirdness”
… width:402] As the theme of her Ivy Oration, one of two humorous student … famous names as examples: "Take Sir Isaac Newton—he was surprised when an apple fell on his head while sitting under an …
James McAuley Awarded Marshall Scholarship
… The Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission has announced the 2012 class of 36 Marshall Scholars , who will pursue their studies in … student to win a scholarship is James K. McAuley ’12, of Currier House and Dallas, Texas, who plans to attend the …
Grill It!
… with his friend and coauthor Chris Schlesinger, founder of the East Coast Grill in Cambridge. A Montage article in Harvard Magazine explores the process of writing a cookbook with Willoughby; this video joins him …
Exploring Entrepreneurship
… and activities at Harvard Business School is available on the Internet, where a single site ( … access to faculty and course web pages; a description of the California research center and list of cases created there; links to research tools at Baker …
Chapter and Verse
… More queries from the archive: “The dawgondist skaw/that a man ever saw/I saw on Vesuvius side/as I wandered one day/in the middle of May.…” (From a poem, possibly by the American artist and writer Peter Newell, describing the 1872 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.) “What was Karl Marx but Macaulay with …
Issue: May-June 2011
Jim Yong Kim, M.D. ’91, Ph.D. ’93, Nominated to Lead World Bank
… The Associated Press has reported that President Barack … Jim Yong Kim, M.D. '91, Ph.D. '93, as the next president of the World Bank (a post for which Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Eliot University …
Chapter and Verse
… novel “contains a dissertation on death and dying with the first line, ‘Death is the beginning, not the end.’ It … humble heart.” A poem containing the lines: “In the corner of the field/A boy flicks a spotted beetle from her wrist.” … woodlands lead the feet to green adventure.” The titles of a Broadway show and the song from that show with a chorus …
Issue: March-April 2012
Tarun Khanna
… “A million mutinies now” was V.S. Naipaul’s 1990 description of the social upheaval then rocking India. “Lurking in that idea,” says Lemann professor Tarun Khanna, Ph.D. ’93, a native of New Delhi, “are …
Issue: November-December 2008