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A Women's Weekend
… get reacquainted with people and places, and educate themselves during often pointed and personal panel discussions and workshops … Drew Faust celebrated the “once unimaginable” gathering of women at Harvard—or at any number of universities that …
Issue: January-February 2017
Union, University Reach Contract Agreement
… The Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers ( HUCTW ) and the University have reached agreement on a new two-year … the HUCTW contract received their negotiated pay increases of 4.9 percent or so in the fiscal year that just ended, …
New University Appointments
… A new CEO at the Harvard Management Company; plus a new director at the … ,” November-December 2005. University news release: New CEO of HMC On the Center for International Development (a unit of the Kennedy School of Government): See “ Development …
New-Look Lavietes
… temporarily in abeyance during the Crimson’s season, as they enter Lavietes Pavilion for … the front façade, ultimately yielding 5,000 square feet of additional space to accommodate new team locker rooms and coaches’ offices. When the work is completed, before next season, …
Issue: November-December 2016
Gonzaga Eastern Point Retreat House
… Retreat House , run by Jesuits in an old stone mansion on the ocean in Gloucester, Massachusetts, “is known for its … follow the Spiritual Exercises drawn up by Saint Ignatius of Loyola (founder of the Jesuits) in the early 1500s, based on his own …
Issue: January-February 2012
86 Across
… up his pencil, explaining, “I turned 86 last October and in the last few years have experienced a slackening of mental and physical powers.” He continues to create … harvardmag.com/decuevas - 17 —complete with a reproduction of his devilish creation for the University’s 350th …
Issue: March-April 2017
TRASH, Negging, and Pyramidality: A Quiz Bowl Glossary
… in which a player buzzes in with a wrong answer before the question is over, disqualifying his team from any … at answering. "When someone negs in another person's area of expertise, that gets ugly," says Harvard team member … question has been read half-way, resulting in the awarding of five extra points. Pyramidality: Style of …
Issue: January-February 2009
First Light Farm Chèvre Brownies
… a strange combination, but our editors put this recipe to the test and found the contrast of the chocolate sweetness and goat cheese tartness, along … to be excellent. Thanks to Max and Trystan Sandvoss— profiled in our September-October 2013 issue —we will be …
Winter Sports
… was followed by various disappointing midseason setbacks, the women’s team (11-7-3, 3-2 Ivy) reeled off a five-game winning streak, capped by an 8-0 thrashing of Boston University during the first round of the Beanpot …
Issue: March-April 2009
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Guggenheims Galore
… “Impressive achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment” … affiliates have received that honor. Creative arts: Professor of visual arts and anthropology Lucien Castaing-Taylor, the …
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