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Understanding Ebola
… 2013, Ebola slowly began spreading in West Africa, killing the majority of people it infected. The disease, caused by a filovirus, … disparage the tools and skills of critical care—‘Dialysis machines? Ventilators? Infusion pumps?’—even well after some …
America the Politically Unequal
… Recent events have focused attention on two of the most consequential phenomena of our time: growing … important finding by the authors is that when voter turnout rises, it is mostly because of increased turnout among …
Issue: September-October 2012
Harvard College Applications Increase
… College today reported receiving 35,022 applications for the class of 2017—a total more than 2 percent above the number of … from the 774 admitted early last year. … Applications rise slightly more than 2 percent from last year. … Harvard …
Color and Incarceration
… In 2005, during her first year of graduate school, Elizabeth Hinton traveled from New York … out of jail, caught up in drugs and addiction and poverty. Their experience was a large part of why, as a little girl, … Harlem residents confront police in 1970; the drastic rise of police presence in black neighborhoods often led to …
Issue: September-October 2019
The Portraitist
… All family snapshots look alike, except to the people in them—and except, perhaps, to Elsa Dorfman, BI … tall and 20 wide, produced by a 200-pound camera that’s one of only six of its kind in the world. Then there’s their … the photo. When he graduated from residency, his wife surprised him with it—all with Dorfman’s aid and abetment. For …
Issue: September-October 2017
A Multiverse of Might-Have-Beens
… There’s something otherworldly about watching a plane land at Boston Logan Airport. The wheels graze the coast of Boston, mere inches from the cobalt Atlantic Ocean, … the tarmac. In daylight, the blood-orange sunbeams bounce off the water. The plane growls to a halt. When I touched …
Martha Minow Appointed Dean of Harvard Law School
… President Drew Faust has appointed Smith professor of law Martha Minow dean of Harvard Law School, effective … July 1; she succeeds Elena Kagan, now solicitor general of the United States. Minow, a member of the faculty since …
The Quiet Campaign
… The contested election for Harvard’s Board of Overseers … own tuition charges. He suggested state-school tuition has risen astronomically because colleges have had to add …
Up in the Air
… change is to show before-and-after pictures: now you see the icebergs, now you don’t. “It seemed like there was more … than that,” says Alex MacLean ’69, M.Arch. ’73. Photographs of vanishing glaciers show the effect but not the cause, he … on the atmosphere from the atmosphere, taking pictures of the ground from high above as he crisscrosses the country …
Issue: January-February 2009
The Art and Science of Class Scheduling
… Organizing the Allston science complex has been protracted, but scheduling undergraduate classes on both sides of the Charles once the School of Engineering and Applies … Business School and the athletic facilities), it is no surprise that the Allston planners’ Class Scheduling Task Force …
Issue: July-August 2016
The Pioneering Crimson Women at the New York Times
… With the appointment of Jill Abramson '76 as executive editor of the New York Times —the first time a woman has held that …
Craig Lambert’s “Shadow Work”
… turned his energies to completing his second book (another real job). Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That … pump; etc. ( At the magazine, which used to send columns of type off to the printer on waxed paper, the staff today … Shadow Work in the forthcoming New York Times Book Review, ‘Rise of the Robots’ and ‘Shadow Work.’ … 219 … A Harvard …
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
From the Basket to the Beach
… In June , Christine Mansour ’15 stepped onto the sand for Team USA at the beach handball world … moment in her improbable, decade-long journey to become one of the best beach handball players in the world. Mansour … with American handball, or wallball) blends elements of water polo and basketball, with players dribbling, …
Setting the Stage
… L ondon’s Chelsea Theatre can be found off a main road in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, a neighborhood where household …
Issue: May-June 2020