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Sharing the Wealth
… For the second year in a row, the President and Fellows of … distribution from the endowment to support the operations of the schools and the University. In November 1998 the …
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
Vita: Leverett Gleason
… July 1941. In his bunker, the Führer and his henchmen finalize schemes for world … is lost. But wait —who is that, crouching on the other side of the wall? It’s Daredevil, infiltrating the Nazis’ inner … convinced that his country had an obligation to stem the rise of fascism. New Deal support for New York’s artists …
Issue: May-June 2011
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 …
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
Scientific Community Reacts to Report of "Misconduct"
… Updated August 13 in the days after the Boston Globe reported that a Harvard investigation turned up "evidence of scientific misconduct" in professor of psychology Marc Hauser 's lab, the newspaper's …
Mastering in the '70s
… In the spring of 1973 Harvard president Derek Bok asked my husband, Jim Vorenberg, to be master of Dunster House. We had been married three years and had … current randomized system.) Black students found the high-rise towers of Leverett and Mather Houses and Currier, the …
Issue: September-October 2002
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 …
The Law School Looks Ahead
… The future of professional education at Harvard promises much closer … in student-edited law reviews, now academic law is giving rise to peer-reviewed journals like those in the social and …
Issue: September-October 2001
Designing for “Changing Climates”
… Tourists visiting the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral in Paris might be seeking a religious or aesthetic experience. But they often leave feeling woozy for other reasons. In the … in Paris; biodiversity in Arles, France; and sea level rise in Antwerp, Belgium. The models, impressive in their …
Beyond the Bubble
… The torrent of venture-funded Internet start-ups and wildly successful initial public stock offerings by such companies from 1998 through early 2000 … and "business to consumer" electronic-commerce enterprises--transmogrified into students' new-old career …
Why We Eat What We Do
… In the spring of 1910, the freshmen of the Harvard Class of 1913 sat down at New American House … were invisible,” Chaplin explains. “They were just like machines that brought you what you wanted.” If a student …
Controlling Conflicts of Interest
… its policies governing faculty members' potential conflicts of interest in conducting their research. The revisions maintain the basic … Photograph by Stu Rosner Why should such problems even arise? First, faculty members are permitted to use 20 percent …
Issue: September-October 2004
Tax Reform, Round One
… The Trump administration’s successful efforts at tax legislation stand out as the primary achievement of its first year. But the hurried, largely furtive drafting, and rush to passage at the end of 2017, have helped obscure the new tax regime’s real …
Issue: May-June 2018
The California Meltdown
… by William H. Hogan A decade ago, California, along with other states and federal policymakers, began to rethink its … to the electricity market. Frustrated by the high costs of long-term contracts and investments in electric power, … to accommodate growing demand. Given the problems that had arisen in the "good old days" of regulation--such as …
Issue: September-October 2001