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… ’Tis the season for New Year’s resolutions, like getting into … progress with 3D and video renderings to give you a sense of your dream gym’s form and function, including a full suite of products, from state-of-the-art cardio equipment to barre …
Issue: January-February 2024
The Physician-Poet
… The moment that Rafael Campo, M.D. ’92, still thinks about … or sits at his desk to write a poem—came at the end of what had been the longest, hardest year of his life. … a chance to write together,” he said. As the group began to rise from their chairs, not quite shaking off the spell of …
Issue: May-June 2019
Off the Shelf
… , photographs by Josie Iselin ’84, text by Margaret W. Carruthers (Abrams, $17.95). Here is an international gathering of rocks, tumbled by nature, beautifully photographed, and … transport you to the waterside straightaway. In Search of Willie Morris: The Mercurial Life of a Legendary Writer …
Issue: July-August 2006
Harvard College Early Admissions Soar
… announced today that 895 students were granted admission to the class of 2017 under the early-action application program—an increase of 16 percent from the 774 admitted early last year (the …
The Week's Events
… Doug Powell and orator Natalie Zemon Davis, historian at the University of Toronto. Baccalaureate Service for the Class of 2010 at 2, Memorial Church, followed by class picture, …
Issue: May-June 2010
No One Deserves a Spot at Harvard
… The British sociologist Michael Young coined “meritocracy” in 1958 in the title of a satire, The Rise of the Meritocracy , which purported to look backward …
Issue: September-October 2020
A Landscape Architect's Outdoor Artwork
… Science and art were tangled up together for Todd Gilens, M.L.A. ’02, ever since the childhood … afternoons he spent at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. “My father had an office nearby,” Gilens recalls, … machinery on private forest land,” he recalls. “These giant machines would cut down a tree, turn it sideways, strip off …
Issue: September-October 2021
Off the Shelf
… The Inside Game, by Keith Law ’94 (Morrow, $28.99). Absent … with references to Thinking Fast and Slow -style analyses of anchoring bias (the case for robot umpires), groupthink, … nothing is the easiest bad call.” Ouch. The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today …
Issue: July-August 2020
Off the Glass, On the Ice
… Basketball With a 71-50 dismembering of New Hampshire, the men (5-0) became only the third Crimson squad in the … to go undefeated in its first five games. Junior guard Jim Goffredo led all scorers with a 14.2 points-per-game average, …
Issue: January-February 2006
The Summers Scoop
… As an extra announcing the selection of Lawrence H. Summers as the University's next president rolled off the presses of the Harvard Crimson on Friday, March 9, …
Harvard Business School Class of...
… School case comparing 1949 and current-year graduates, by professors of business administration Richard S. Tedlow and Nancy F. … School case comparing 1949 and current-year graduates, by professors of business... … 2541 … Harvard Business School …
Issue: November-December 2005
The Rhodes Roster
… in muted grays, stocking-caps, and ski-masks, review, for the umpteenth time, their plot. Lock-pick kit? Check. Map? Check. Camera? Frantically, one of the conspirators searches his seemingly countless … South of L ___ house. 2:26 a.m. The section of tunnel that rises over the Charles, through ___ Bridge, eventually …
Issue: March-April 2004
The Originals
… C. Tarr '66 and Vaughan Morrill '66 dreamed up what was then a far-out notion: use a computer to arrange compatible … dropout who went on to become a Harvard Law School professor and nominee for the Supreme Court), they drafted … attracts—we knew that then," says Crump, today a law professor at the University of Houston. "But attraction is a …
Issue: March-April 2003
Freezing Out the Forwards
… The Harvard athletic department website, a shrine to the accomplishments of Crimson athletes, makes a peculiar boast regarding ice … minutes." Spending time in the penalty box is not the kind of achievement that usually makes a coach smile. But for a …
Issue: March-April 2005
Notes on Doctoring
… a neurology resident, Michael P.H. Stanley ’13 was paged to the room of a delirious patient. The terminally ill man, agitated and … earl’s answer: “‘Absolutely.’” That exchange doesn’t surprise O’Keefe, who remembers Stanley as ardently immersed in …
Issue: January-February 2022