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Meet the Candidates
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee … has announced the 2022 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) … in a rapidly changing world driven by technology and the rise of artificial intelligence, political and social …
Issue: March-April 2022
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 …
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
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
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 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
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
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
“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
Harvard’s Finances in a Challenging Year
… Harvard’s annual financial report for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2024, published today—an academic year of campus tumult, an overturned presidency, and speculation … circumstances. Revenues and expenses both continued to rise, again yielding an operating surplus (extending a …
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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
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 …
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