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Brazil's "Minister of Ideas"
… In the Times story, Unger compares his Harvard experience to … garden. It is not dangerous enough... The New York Times profiles Pound professor of law Roberto Mangabeira Unger, who is taking a …
The Endowment Rises
… endowment was valued at $32.7 billion last June 30, the end of fiscal year 2013, up $2.0 billion (6.5 percent) … $2 billion to $32.7 billion … 1508 … 1511 … The Endowment Rises … article …
Issue: November-December 2013
At Home with Harvard: Harvard in the World
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the previous selections, featuring articles about income … Billions ,” John Rosenberg reports on the social-enterprise work—for-profit companies with a social mission—of …
Critic of Kennedy School Alumnus Arrested for Embezzlement
… A critic of Braddock, Pennsylvania, mayor John Fetterman, M.P.P. ’99— profiled in the September-October 2010, magazine — has been arrested for …
President Faust on the Continuing Resonance of Race
… The Harvard Gazette reports that President Drew Faust joined … Business School (HBS) class for a personal discussion of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” the civil-rights leader’s resonant defense of civil disobedience. Her participation underscores the …
Risk-Taking Lizards
… THE BROWN ANOLE , a variety of lizard widespread in the Caribbean and southern United States, divides its time between the ground and the limbs of trees and shrubs. If a predator is around, the lizards …
Learning, and Life, in the Houses
… In 2008, when Suzy Nelson, then Harvard College’s associate dean for residential life, … and Elizabeth Ross about becoming master and co-master of Currier House, she suggested that it was good to eat with … “Elizabeth wrinkled her nose,” recalls Wrangham, Moore professor of biological anthropology—not at the students’ …
Issue: November-December 2013
A Fitter FAS
… With the pandemic’s worst effects in the past, Dean Claudine Gay painted an upbeat picture of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) prospects when … percent to 33 percent. A new section detailed the dramatic rise in non-ladder faculty, to 356 full-time equivalents, …
Issue: January-February 2023
The Elephant in the Room
… Thursday nights, clops of dress shoes and clicks of high heels echo through the narrow streets of Harvard’s campus. Adjusting their ties … If the conservative groups on Harvard’s campus comprised a human body, JAS would be the brain. Founded in 2014, …
Issue: September-October 2023
Challenges on the Field and Off
… Beset by an ugly string of off-season incidents, the football team sought to make amends on the playing … why Harvards Division 1-AA football program would never rise to Division 1-A, as a mean-spirited attack on the …
Issue: November-December 2006
Why the Finns Do Not Drink but Die and the French Drink but Do Not Die
… public health prevention program requires knowledge of factors that may increase the likelihood of maintaining health or developing a disease. Several …
Issue: September-October 2011
A Quartet of Crises
… In retrospect, Harvard’s crisis during and after the Great Recession of 2008-2010 was a piece of cake. Yes, the University lost … . • These challenges arise against the backdrop of an adversarial political …
Issue: November-December 2020
The Mysterious Mr. Shakespeare
… I set out to solve a mystery," says Cogan University Professor Stephen Greenblatt. "The basic facts of Shakespeare's life have been known for a … of Greenblatt's book is his assertion that from the crises of Shakespeare's late adolescence sprang …
Issue: September-October 2004
Of Software and Apples
… Sure, he's got the traits. He's young (34), bright, ambitious, intense, … peers ends there. For starters, his company, Eze Castle Software Incorporated, has thrived, growing steadily even … McLaughlin and his wife, Laura (Denessen), are the parents of six young children. As the eldest of 10 siblings himself, …
Issue: March-April 2004
Culture in the Cold War
… In 1946, shortly after the end of World War II, the philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote … one cannot live without freedom,” she noted with faint surprise. Perceptively, though, she added, “The fundamental …
Issue: March-April 2021