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Skull Walking
… If you happened to be outdoors on the Harvard Medical School campus last November, you might have noticed this 78-inch-tall model of a bisected human skull making its way down Shattuck … Street by Gordon Hall to a staging area in the basement of the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. It was …
Issue: March-April 2014
Head to Toe
… Beneath shelves of books on the biology of bone, a collection of skulls and running shoes lies in a …
Issue: January-February 2011
150 Years of Glee
… During its first international tour, in 1921, the Harvard Glee Club inspired French composers Francis … project. In 2000, Bernard E. Kreger ’59, secretary of the Harvard Glee Club Foundation, donated $25,000 (which … was matched by the foundation) to commission a new piece of men’s choral music annually, culminating in a major work …
Issue: March-April 2008
The Dating Game
… Since 1978, thousands of people have streamed into Tercentenary Theatre on an early Thursday in June, looking forward to the University’s annual celebration of graduates past and present that is Commencement day. Yet …
Issue: May-June 2005
In Russia, Economic and Political Effects of the Holocaust Linger
… Nazi germany's occupation of parts of Russia had lasting and quantifiable effects, Florence … coauthors conclude in a working paper published in June by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Working with Daron …
The New Medicine
… Seeking to make the most of new scientific opportunities in an era of rising … compounds emerging from laboratories. But questions have arisen about quality and conflicts of interest in the …
The Korean Nuclear Crisis
… As the United States was preparing to launch a war to counter … weapons ambitions, a far greater disaster involving weapons of mass destruction was brewing half a world away. North … over the freeze at Yongbyon, had moved on to other crises like the Balkans and taken its eyes off North Korea. …
Issue: September-October 2003
Letters from Readers
… page 42) with a friend and fellow Harvard graduate (class of 2003). We thought Keohane nicely described the tension between the life of action and the need for … from Elizabeth Gudrais’s discussion of The End of Big ( “Rise of the Little Guy,” September-October, page 13), author …
Issue: November-December 2013
"First Day of School" for Engineering
… With speeches and feasting, Harvard celebrated the launch of its new School of Engineering and Applied … “through it all, Harvard’s engineering and technology enterprise, whatever people have cared to call it at any given …
Issue: November-December 2007
Minding the Gap
… Abigail Thernstrom , a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, and Stephan Thernstrom, Winthrop professor of …
Issue: March-April 2004
“Hope to Achieve Beauty”: A Class Day Talk at the Graduate School of Design
… “Dare to contemplate the crazy— it may lead to deeper sanity—and the ugly. It may … Brown told her audience on Class Day at the Graduate School of Design (GSD). Scott Brown’s wide-ranging speech touted … in South Africa, her battles as an urban planner, the woes of being rejected for projects, and the utter joys of …
The Pragmatist
… university , Lawrence S. Bacow famously invited members of the community to join him on early-morning runs: a chance to … obviously also apply to operating long-established enterprises that meld together research, professional training, …
Issue: September-October 2018
Behind the Rampages
… Their names— and their respective tragedies—are now a part of the American lexicon: Littleton, Colorado; Paducah, … Kentucky; Jonesboro, Arkansas. The school shootings of the late 1990s came to represent everything bad about …
Issue: September-October 2002
Lady Godiva: The Naked Truth
… Staggering beneath the yoke of oppressive taxes, the medieval residents of Coventry, England, pleaded in vain for relief. …
Issue: July-August 2003
An Overview of Long-term-care Insurance
… What follows is a summary of information about long-term-care insurance (frequently … as LTCi). For an inexpensive brochure on buying LTCi, call the National Council on Aging at 800-373-4906. For details … about LTC ." Benefits: Benefits are expressed in terms of cost per day, with the buyer selecting the amount at time …
Issue: July-August 2004