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The Education Business
… Ever since the later nineteenth century, American schools -- from … in the last 30 years. But recent results have caused a bit of backlash. How, exactly, have economic pressures shaped … influence of business-inspired approaches" (Cuban) has arisen in the last three decades. The force of money has …
Issue: March-April 2005
Clothes Overboard!
… The first hot-air balloon trip across the English Channel … had hoped to leave Jeffries behind, despite his funding of the expedition). But floating technology in 1785 wasn’t … toward a forest too extensive to traverse. Needing both to rise above thick tree trunks and halt momentum, it …
Issue: May-June 2021
"Hot Time in the Old Town": New York City's Deadly Heat Wave of 1896
… Most of us enduring this summer's heat waves will feel lucky … after reading this book. Edward P. Kohn ’90's Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt is concerned …
The Senior Celebrants
… Two 99-year-olds— Frances Pass Addelson ’30, of Brookline, Massachusetts, and George Barner ’29, Ed ’32, L ’33, of Kennebunk, Maine—the oldest graduates present on Commencement day, were …
Issue: July-August 2008
Off the Shelf
… On the jacket, a detail of an idealized image of a chief (or … hypnotized him; and he judged that American football "comprised brief episodes of violent activity interrupted by what …
Issue: July-August 2004
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Freezes Faculty Hiring
… As reported, the University’s major professional schools have begun … health and safety first; protecting the academic enterprise; leveraging our breadth and diversity; and preserving …
How the Pandemic Killed the Uninfected
… When the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare health disparities among … equity to the forefront,” explains Zirui Song, associate professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School and a …
Issue: May-June 2022
World-Wide Web of Life
… Doug Backlund, South Dakota Dept. of Game, Fish, and Parks American burying beetle Gary M. … White tip reef shark Tim Bowman Long-billed dowitcher Of the 23 types of salamander in the genus Thorius endemic …
Issue: November-December 2008
Harvard College Admits 4.6 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2022
… The College has admitted 1,962 of 42,749 applicants to the class of 2022 (nearly half of them—964—had already been admitted …
The Art Army
… have stolen more than five million cultural objects from the countries it conquered, including thousands of the world’s greatest artistic masterpieces. As the … a scientist , a modernizer, but he never put his faith in machines. The skilled observer, not the machine, was the …
Issue: January-February 2010
Behind the Scenes: Journalism in an Internet Era
… donors like you makes it possible for us to produce the high-quality journalism that you expect and rely on. It is no secret that the rise of the Internet has siphoned advertising from newspapers, …
The Urban Landscaper
… red hair going every which way and his designer black clothes rumpled, Michael Van Valkenburgh, 61, looks like a contradiction: an absent-minded hipster professor. A professor and designer he is—the Eliot professor … doesn’t matter much to Van Valkenburgh. Its order arises instead from the efforts of its designers to realize …
Issue: November-December 2013
Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner Named Hasty Pudding Man and Woman of the Year
… In-person celebrations for the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ Man and Woman of the Year Awards will resume this year as the Pudding Pot … Jason Bateman with the 55th annual Hasty Pudding Man of the Year award,” said Pudding President Nick Amador. …
The "Sellout"
… In the hazardous waters of American race politics, a particular … approval from “white” society quickly yields suspicions of racial treachery. The black “sellout” suffers a form of …
Issue: November-December 2007
“I Am Talking to the Part of You that Does Not Speak”
… For decades , Laurie Anderson dreamed of having a late-night radio show. She wanted to reach people during that period of time when “most of the listeners are half-asleep or trying to get back to …