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At Home with Harvard: The Climate Crisis
… This is the ninth installment in Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home … medicine, and more, here . On the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day, Harvard Magazine has pulled from its archives … day, as this article explains , maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that people living in places where fine-particle …
The Journalist as Citizen
… On Tuesday night , in the first of three talks she’ll give at Harvard this week, … no one told her not to go. Only afterward did the idea arise that it was a mistake. “It seemed impossible,” …
The Provost Meets the Press...
… M.D. '71, M.P.P. '72, Ph.D. '80, who had served as dean of the School of Public Health since 1984, was appointed … of the University who is trying to look out over the enterprise as a whole. To make a corporate analogy, I'd say that …
Who Built the Pyramids?
… The pyramids and the Great Sphinx rise inexplicably from the desert at Giza, relics of a vanished culture. They dwarf the approaching sprawl of …
Issue: July-August 2003
Taking Stock of Harvard’s Athletics Culture
… L. Scalise, who arrived at Harvard in 1974 as head coach of the men’s lacrosse team, announced that he would retire at the end of this academic year . In an interview with Harvard …
A Revival of Yiddish?
… Ruth Wisse at McGill, would seem at first glance living proof that Yiddish is indeed being revived. Lansky, who set off … Yiddish books in danger of being lost, is now director of the National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, … theater, and vintage films, in addition to his own enterprise. However, the Yiddish language, he says, is af tsoris …
New Museum on Fast Track
… in December that a new, permanent art museum would rise at 224 Western Avenue, a prime site in the University’s incipient Allston campus. Some facility is needed urgently in which to put a quarter of a million art objects, and the staff who look after them, …
Issue: March-April 2007
Michael Johnston on the “Human Business” of Education
… Despite the protests that followed his selection as this year’s Graduate School of Education (GSE) Convocation speaker, Michael Johnston , … to decide, and the will to love as the fundamental values of the “human business” of education. Underscoring the …
Off the Shelf
… I mperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War, by Marvin Kalb, Murrow professor of practice emeritus (Brookings Institution, $29). … their “historical, biographical, and creative origins.” The Rise of the Right to Know, by Michael Schudson, Ph.D. ’76 …
Issue: September-October 2015
A Matter of Words
… panelist"? If you guessed "At least one," go on to the next round and meet Tony Kahn '66, who appears regularly … across the country. The show features competing teams, offbeat questions about language and literature, and a … round in which Kahn once gave the meaning of "interpolate" as "to arrest in several countries at …
Issue: September-October 2001
Off the Shelf
… Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World of Fireflies , by Sara Lewis ’75, RI ’90 … to quietly devastating (“Cities are destroyed by fire / And rise again; / Conquering armies melt away, / Hemorrhaging …
Issue: May-June 2016
Back to the Bond Market...
… Harvard is in the process of issuing $730 million of tax-exempt revenue … revenue bonds. As a result, total debt outstanding will rise from $6.3 billion at the end of the last fiscal year …
Home Unaffordable Home
… In 1995, a typical home in the Boston metropolitan area could be had for about … excluding closing costs, taxes, and insurance) would have risen fourfold, from $1,029 to $4,181, leading to payments over the life of the loan totaling more than $1.5 million. Nationwide, the …
Issue: November-December 2024
Of Solar Panels and Salvaged Sinks
… As fuel costs skyrocket and concerns grow about the world's energy resources, the idea of creating a more energy-efficient home becomes more … not economical," says Henry Lee '68, M.P.A. '74, director of the environmental and natural resources program at …
Issue: September-October 2001
Getting and Spending
… The University’s annual financial accounting—usually a … The new title (the fusty Financial Report to the Board of Overseers of Harvard College has given way to a more … the prior year, was a principal factor. The $23.2-million rise in revenue from continuing and executive education …
Issue: November-December 2007