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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 …
“A Tiger Jumping Out of the Woods”
… The Massachusetts General Hospital wilderness-medicine … HAPE (high-altitude pulmonary edema, an accumulation of fluid in the lungs, the most common cause of death from high-altitude illness), and HACE …
Issue: November-December 2017
A Radical Fix for the Republic
… , Lawrence Lessig , a mild-seeming legal scholar, pursued the intricacies of updating American copyright law to reflect the rise of the digital era, the Internet, and new means of …
Issue: July-August 2012
Off the Shelf
… The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865, by Mark Peterson ’83, Ph.D. …
Issue: March-April 2019
Sex and the Inner City
… The sexual and romantic habits of urban black males have … it’s all about trust.” The question of fidelity does not arise with stunts. But even with wifeys, only some men were …
Issue: March-April 2006
Admissions Equity
… Harvard gave admissions preference to “legacies”—children of alumni. I knew that, I replied. I had in mind M. Elaine … vivid story of her freshman encounter with an alumnus, the parent of a classmate whose middle name she subsequently … ties the legacy effect to related phenomena, such as the rise of upper-income sports (womens crew, horseback riding) …
Issue: November-December 2006
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
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 …
Yesterday's News
… 1923 The committee examining Harvard’s admissions process … and a corresponding decrease in unsatisfactory marks as proof that upperclassmen have the “capacity and interest to … The University announces that tuition for the College will rise to $525 in the fall, the first increase in 20 years, …
Issue: March-April 2008
Families on the Edge
… Humberto started to pace back and forth across the floor of the cinder-block home, cradling his son in his … diarrhea and frequent infections. Accidents and injuries arise from young children being hit by cars when they are too …
Issue: July-August 2003
Urban Utopias
… Among the most disorienting features of living in contemporary … architectural remnants of the Beijing of his youth: the low-rise socialist housing built in the wake of the Communist …
Issue: September-October 2010
Curiosities: “Completely Magical”
… as recreate how we see it. Since turning to photography in the 1990s, he has produced a store of images that primarily reflect two subjects: Colorado’s … thing about this show is how an economy of means gives rise to this endless creative profusion,” says exhibit …
Issue: November-December 2021
Dean of Student Life Departs
… Dean of student life Suzy M. Nelson will leave at the end of the academic year to accept a post as vice president and …
Arts and Science Transitions
… The beginning of the end of a period of instability in the … and co-founder, chief scientist, and chairman of Liquid Machines, a software company that provides security services … making FAS, and Harvard, “the most exciting” learning enterprise in the world. Both Faust and Smith praised Bok, …
Issue: July-August 2007
The New Overseers and HAA Elected Directors
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and new elected directors of the … N.Y. Vice president, head of strategy and group enterprises, MTV Entertainment Group. Jane Labanowski ’17 , …
Issue: July-August 2021