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Colin Powell Discussed the Role of the Military
… afternoon in 1993, he was finishing his tenure as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Bill Clinton. His prospective …
Making the Wires Touch
… "When you read literary works or see them on the stage, as in the case of Shakespeare," says Stephen Greenblatt, "you are … them. "That signals that something is wrong with this enterprise. It runs the risk of becoming bloodless." Greenblatt's …
Issue: September-October 2004
A Matter of Place
… build a library and information center in what used to be the town of Purysburg, South Carolina, settled by 600 poor Swiss … is not just another job for an architect who divides his professional attention between his own practice and the …
Issue: September-October 2001
At Home With Harvard: Editors' Favorite Stories of 2020
… issue. While some events from this year accounted for much of our web traffic (need one say “COVID”?), other articles brought our readers joy or provoked good, … Extinction of the Press" “There’s only one private enterprise that is mentioned in the United States Constitution and …
A Garden of Prose
… The 2,000-square-foot vegetable plot—planted with fava … The Book, the Life, the Afterlife (2009; appearing in softcover this fall). Prose writes everything except, well, poetry. “Francine is one of the great writers of her generation,” says James Atlas …
Issue: September-October 2010
Historian of Ices
… game: pick a famous person and guess which combination of gelato and toppings would have been his or her favorite. Sigmund Freud, they agreed, would have chosen “a cup of black coffee with a … puts in an appearance as the inventor of Omelette Surprise: ice cream enclosed in meringue. In another chapter, …
Issue: July-August 2006
A Classroom in the Now
… In the early 1990s, scientist, writer, and world-renowned … encountered Cherry Hamrick, a teacher in the small town of South Jordan, Utah, who wanted to bring mindfulness—the act of paying attention on purpose in the present moment—into …
After the Pandemic’s Peak
… The good news is that the bad news isn’t so bad. That’s a quick interpretation of dean Claudine Gay’s annual report on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and the accompanying financial …
Bearer of Bad News
… This week's New York Times Magazine has a profile of New York University economist Nouriel Roubini, whose … been startlingly spot-on. Roubini, Ph.D. ’88, predicted the U.S. economy's current conditions with chilling …
Matthew Nock Appointed Professor of Psychology
… Matthew Nock , previously Loeb associate professor of the social sciences, has been granted tenure and is now …
Lines of Friendship
… been to AWP?” Jean Valentine ’56, RI ’68, asks, almost out of the blue. “Oh, it’s wonderful!” This comes toward the end of an interview about the peaks and valleys of a literary …
Issue: November-December 2016
An Aftermath to Avoid
… Looking back to 1989, it seems incredible that when the grounds of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo were valued at more than the … while the absence of inflation hid the danger. As the crises developed, both countries became caught in a liquidity …
Issue: July-August 2010
Fueling Our Future
… for energy, on which we depend for health and prosperity, rises all the time: oil and natural gas to heat our homes; electricity … for our cars and trucks. Fossil fuels provide 80 percent of the energy that powers civilization. The more fuel we …
Issue: May-June 2006
"Entering the Elite"
… An apocryphal tale about car-window decals epitomizes the frenzy surrounding college admissions in recent years. … comes The Early Admissions Game , reflecting five years of work by professor of public policy Christopher Avery and … Yet at Harvard, the number of students admitted early has risen to more than 1,100 of the nearly 2,100 who receive …
Issue: May-June 2003
A Shift in the Created Order
… Adapted by the author from the Convocation Address she delivered to the … School community on September 19, 2005, at the opening of the academic year, half a century after the first female students matriculated there. The admission of women to Harvard programs——a contentious question across …
Issue: May-June 2006