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The Mobile Revolution
… Main Article Business for the Other Billions Ironically, nothing bedevils lower-income … infrastructure. It’s an improvement on perishable stores of value (cows, for instance). But cash can be readily … the foundation even invested in bKash, a mobile-money enterprise in Bangladesh. So much for significant, but relatively …
Issue: September-October 2015
From the Archives: The Citizen’s Right to Know Is On the Line
… constitutional questions currently generating headlines in the national media—concerns about executive overreach, the balance of power between presidents and Congress, and access to … essential information. Finally, there’s the quality, enterprise, and courage of those who report for, edit, and control …
A Focus on the Future
… annual sustainability report, released October 4, details the University’s efforts to prepare for two fast-approaching … with raising cattle ); water use is down; and one-third of the University bus fleet has transitioned to … and staff have gradually returned to campus, emissions have risen in turn. But they remain similar to the pre-pandemic …
“An Atomically Precise Forest for the Price of the Sunlight”
… P ond scum may not seem useful, but the substances bacteria produce that give bathtub slime its tenacity and the biofilm on the back of your tongue its mucilaginous qualities can be very useful …
The Faculty’s New Faces
… faculty ranks have, gradually, become increasingly diverse. The intersection of lifetime tenured appointments; no mandatory retirement age; a decade of very constrained growth; and the long time it takes …
Issue: May-June 2019
Conant in the Blow
… with passers-by." Seventy years ago, on September 21, came the New England Hurricane of 1938: a.k.a. the Long Island Express, owing to the … of Massachusetts, Amherst. Presented a basket of surprise ingredients, the competitors had 40 minutes to plan a …
Issue: September-October 2008
Beyond the SAT
… Nicholas Lemann ’76, dean of the Columbia Journalism School from 2003 to 2013 ( “The … (1999). A succinct new work, Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing …
Issue: September-October 2024
The Harvard Tour
… Fall of junior year, I often woke up to a yell outside my window. … measured scream, starting low and increasing in pitch, the way one shouts during “the wave.” After the first few … to tell this story. DO NOT MENTION IT.” Even so, I was surprised that the Key tour had no overarching narrative. I …
Issue: July-August 2018
Undervaluing Undergraduate Education?
… In a column in the Chronicle of Higher Education (September 28), Kevin … he inflates to $7.7 billion in current dollars), and its rise to a peak value of $36.9 billion in 2008. The crux of …
Gomes Marks 40 Years of Ministry
… Widely beloved Harvard figure Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals and Pusey minister in the Memorial Church, celebrated 40 years as an ordained …
At Home with Harvard: Harvard in the Movies
… This is the second installment in Harvard Magazine ’s new series, … as a school for aspiring artists, but it has produced some of the most interesting creators—filmmakers, film writers, … of Andrew Bujalski ’98 , the filmmaker credited with the rise of mumblecore, an independent-film genre focused on …
The Year That Was
… T-shirt Spirit To build, and bolster, spirit among the pandemic-dispersed members of the College class of 2024—many deferred enrolling; those who matriculated took …
Issue: July-August 2021
The Zimmerman House
… The following text is a sidebar to " Modern and Historic ," … the interior spaces are joined together at corners, instead of by walls and through passageways.” These hallmarks of modernism, along with 50 built-ins, elegant geometric …
Issue: September-October 2007
Endowment Distribution to Be Reduced 8 Percent; Budget Cuts Loom
… On March 18, the University advised schools and other units that … The reduction is driven by the sharp decline in the value of endowment assets first reported last fall (see here for … for operations were provisionally estimated to rise further in the current fiscal year, to $1.4 billion or …
Buffed Up and Orderly
… The great mammal hall has been emblematic of the Harvard Museum of Natural History for decades. Traditionalists will be glad …
Issue: January-February 2015