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Focusing on the Face
… The photograph that opens the first chapter of Melissa … Ingenious Art: Reflections on Daguerreotypes at Harvard is of Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre himself, the unlikely …
Made in the U.S.A.
… The phrase “The Great American Novel” means something more than the sum of its parts. There are plenty of great American novels that … qualify, and neither does Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises , or Willa Cather’s The Lost Lady , even though …
Issue: January-February 2014
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
The Harvard Center for Gastrophysics?
… Surprise is Ferran Adrià’s stock in trade. He delights the diners at elBulli, his restaurant near Barcelona, with … served hot; a “bubble tea” drink in which the liquid tastes of prosciutto and the bubbles of melon; and jellybean-like …
Issue: March-April 2009
The College within the University
… D. Ronald Daniel : There’s a very special governance issue at Harvard. That is the role of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences [FAS] in the whole University. Henry …
Issue: May-June 2006
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
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
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
The Great Refractor
… On a commanding hillock less than a mile northwest of Harvard Square sits the Harvard College Observatory and the Great Refractor, … lowered. The telescope is firmly grounded: a granite pier rises 43 feet to the observing floor from a 22-foot-diameter …
Issue: May-June 2004
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 …
Stand Up: HBS Marks 50 Years of Women
… In 1963, eight women crossed the Charles River to crack a barrier that had stood for more than half a century at Harvard, becoming the first of their gender to enroll in the Business School’s two-year … far from reaching parity with their male peers: they comprise only 4 percent of Fortune 500 Company CEOs, run less …
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
The Shape of Sound
… During her junior year of college, Jessica Shand ’22 discovered topology—a branch of mathematics that studies how far shapes can stretch and morph …
Issue: May-June 2025
The Shah of Iran Proposed a Universal Welfare Legion
… The shah of Iran addressed alumni and new graduates on … afternoon in 1968, proposing an “international counterpart of the Peace Corps” in the name of entering “a holy struggle …
How AI Is Reshaping Supply Chains
… One powerful example lies in a field that people don’t often consider: supply chain management. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chains were thrust suddenly …