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Songwriter-Scholar-Activist Gets His Own Radio Show
… Derrick Ashong ’97, the subject of an alumni profile in the July-August 2006 issue, has a new gig. The …
Harvard’s 360th
… 26. For information regarding tickets, events, and alumni gatherings, visit www.commencementoffice.harvard.edu . … Early information on Commencement … …
Issue: January-February 2011
Point Woman for Consumer Protection
… regulatory overhaul, one provision under consideration is the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency to regulate mortgages and credit cards. Gottlieb professor of law Elizabeth Warren--now on leave to serve in …
Chapter & Verse
… and a patient is called a consumer, an angel dies.” The Internet offers vague allusions to a novel and a columnist, but I couldn’t find a source that includes both parts of the quotation. I have vague memories of the late Uwe …
Issue: March-April 2018
Chapter and Verse
… I. Allen Chirls asks if there is an earlier source for the avowal that Paul Child … to a crowd in Indianapolis on April 4, 1968, informing them of the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King. Kennedy said, “My …
Issue: November-December 2010
Proposed NLRB Rule Would Revoke Graduate Students’ Union Rights
… The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will publish a … for a fair contract, and it won’t stop the thousands of student workers who are organizing across the country.” … public, and then to bring stability to this important area of federal labor law.” Members of the public are invited to …
Schooner Skipper
… boating enthusiast Roger Taylor ’53 is now captain of the Lois McClure, a full-scale replica of an 1862-class sailing canal schooner. The vessel, created …
Issue: July-August 2005
Richard G. Heck Jr.
… Philosopher Richard Heck earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Duke, studied philosophy at Oxford, and got … in 1991. When he came to Harvard that year as assistant professor, his reddish hair fell almost to the small of his back and he had an enormous beard. A senior …
Harvard Forms Army ROTC Relationship
… Harvard today announced that it had agreed with the United States Army to establish a limited on-campus presence for an Army Senior Reserve Officers Training Corps (SROTC), with the University assuming the costs of student participation in the program. The Army's …
Video: Water as a Platform for Development
… In Jonathan Shaw’s “The Water Tamer,” from the January-February 2012 issue, Professor John Briscoe , who worked on water projects for … part politics, part civilization.” Last summer, as part of the Harvard Water Security Initiative , Briscoe decided …
Al Fresco Dining
… Smack in the center of Watertown Square is an established Italian … Stellina ( www.stellinarestaurant.com ; 617-924-9475). The interior boasts an appealing, wood-paneled, Arts and … brick patio with lovely plantings. A wooden fence, softened by a fragrant grape arbor to one side, and the …
Nell Porter-Brown , Elizabeth Gudrais
Issue: July-August 2009
HAA Award Winners
… Six alumni have received the Harvard Alumni Association’s 2023 HAA Awards for their … service to the University. Michael R. Alderete ’79, of San Francisco, a longtime alumni interviewer, has … nonprofit leaders to the Business School’s social enterprise program. Bertram “Bert” A. Huberman ’44, M.B.A. ’48, of …
Issue: November-December 2023
Bedding Down in Early America
… supports tightened with a wooden peg (from which the phrase “sleep tight” derives) held mattresses stuffed … An Intimate Look” —at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, in Hartford, Connecticut, further reveals: “Before … was transported to America, features an enclosure made of fustian valances and curtains embroidered with crewel …
Issue: January-February 2019
Shore Appointed Vice President for Finance
… appointed vice president for finance and chief financial officer. The text of the University's news release appears here . A news story …
Football: Harvard 37, Pennsylvania 20
… In their wisdom, the football gods decreed that this year’s … and Brown now have two league losses. Whatever the outcome of next Saturday’s Yale Bowl finale, Harvard (6-0 in Ivy games, 8-1 overall) is assured of this year’s Ivy championship. Harvard teams have won or …