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The Maximalist
… Everyone in the recording booth agreed the cello wasn’t coming through. … for a few measures, to help it cut through the deep thicket of piano accompaniment. Jazz and opera singers, Sanford … it wrong, but agreed to give it a try. “That’s the danger of having the composer there!” Haimovitz explained after the …
Issue: November-December 2008
AI and Democracy
… History will look back on 2024 as the first AI election, said Shorenstein Center director … event, “ AI and its Implications for Democracy.” That sense of the historical moment pervaded the ensuing conversation … among participants, who stressed the unprecedented nature of current technological progress. Paul professor of the …
Back in the Game
… In the fall of my freshman year, I arrived in Cambridge with a lot of baggage. The family station wagon was nearly bursting … hibernation and awakened my player's instinct. I was surprised at how naturally my skills started to return to me. I …
Issue: January-February 2002
The "Great Good Place"
… for post-graduate English studies, and I wouldn't have been there if the University of London had admitted me without time-consuming conditions. Somewhat to my surprise, Harvard, albeit with conditions of its own, did accept …
Issue: September-October 2001
Allston: The Killer App
… A quarter-century after the University first acquired land in Allston, in 1989, to accommodate growth, it may begin construction of the first academic facility there. At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting on February 5 (as this magazine …
Issue: March-April 2013
Harvard Medical School Revises Conflicts-of-Interest Policies
… its policies governing faculty members’ financial conflicts of interest and commitment (COI). This is the first such comprehensive revision since 2004 , and, by … public confidence in the integrity of the scientific enterprise”—no minor challenge in light of public concern over …
The Square, Revisited
… The more things change, the more they stay the same. That's … Square may be humming this spring as they cruise its mix of new and old faces and places. The Square has seen … opened outlets here--but old favorites from the Coop to Out of Town News still serve as familiar landmarks. And, as …
Barney Frank: "The Most Outspoken Man in the House"
… Having served in the United States House of Representatives since 1981, … to address the housing, banking, and automobile industry crises. Toobin ends by quoting Frank on the challenge ahead: …
On Unintended Consequences
… It would be hard to top Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge as the title for a book of “Essays in Unintended Consequences”—the subtitle for a collection of thought-provoking, finely crafted pieces by long-time …
Issue: March-April 2025
Cheers, Love, and Altruism at the Graduate School of Education
… The Graduate School of Education’s Convocation ceremony on Wednesday afternoon in Radcliffe Yard began with the exuberance of a pep rally and closed with three sets of personal …
Medicare Solutions and Problems
… The addition of prescription-drug coverage to Medicare is … to their American bond holdings, interest rates could rise substantially. They would rise even more if the current bond owners decided to reduce …
Issue: May-June 2004
The Human Genome Map, 10 Years Later
… In the decade since the first mapping of a human genome in its entirety, the pace of discovery enabled by this new technology has, in …
Report to the Alumni
… Emeritus Kennedy School. Graduate English Oration. The Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. The departing president … The task that awaits us now is to help the University rise again to the challenges it faces so that we can succeed …
In the Hole
… Construction continued apace in early February on the foundations of Harvard’s first science complex in Allston, a roughly … initiatives, and the University-wide department of systems biology. Workers have been waterproofing the …
Issue: March-April 2009
Having Fun with the News
… Even after six years and continuing success at the helm of National Public Radio's Wait Wait...Don't Tell … aspiring to host a show in radio," he says. "Ira Glass [of This American Life ] started here as an intern at 18, …
Issue: September-October 2004