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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
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 …
Ghost Stories for the Apocalypse
… On the balmy waves above a coral reef we once called Harvard … 25, run the gamut in setting, scope, and even form: a scrap of scripture from an imagined monastery shares space with a sci-fi saga spanning a million years of future history. But in a way, they are all ghost stories. …
Life After Harvard: The Pains and Pleasures of Alumni Reunions
… Reunions are practically invented for storytellers. “There’s this amazing dramatic structure built into our lives … becomes this built-in ritual, as time passes, to take stock of who we once were, and who we are now. That’s not always … telling details the melancholy-tinged reflections that can arise as classmates depart the reunion: The tent had …
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
Graduate School of Education Launches $250-Million Campaign
… On the crisp autumn Friday of September 19, the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) canceled classes and closed off Appian … and experimentation in an effort to effect a nationwide rise in excellence and equity outcomes. His initial …
The Jesus’s Wife Fragment: The Scientific Evidence
… In September 2012, Hollis professor of divinity Karen L. King made international headlines when she revealed the existence of a fragmentary, apparently ancient, text in …
Life Sciences, Applied
… make hydrogen fuel directly from sunlight. Determining how the geometry of damaged heart cells leads to coronary disasters. Creating … This area has become particularly important with the rise of small-scale manufacturing and design that make it …
Issue: January-February 2009
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
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
“This Is a Battle of Ideas”
… Attendance at the afternoon portion of Harvard’s 366th Commencement Day … Puddles formed on the empty chairs. The plastic cups of beer from the Yard’s refreshments tent ran over with …
"Two Radically Different Worlds"
… In his annual dean’s report , released for the year’s second Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on October 27, Michael D. … 2008 to $137.2 million last year; the cost is expected to rise some $10 million more this year.) A footnote partially …
Issue: January-February 2010
Innovation at the Intersection
… success as inventors; few actually do. Lee Fleming, Weatherhead professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, is …
Issue: May-June 2010
David Cutler: Can the U.S. Healthcare System Be Fixed?
… No country in the world spends more on health care than the United States, … nations, but consistently ranks near the bottom on measures of population wellness and life expectancy. Is there a … What is the breaking point? How much can costs continue to rise? David Cutler : It's a very good question. There's no …
The Bird Man
… “They’re very special birds, but they could go extinct in the flash of an eye,” says Gus Bodner ’89 of the native Hawaiian birds he studies. The Ph.D. candidate …
Issue: September-October 2007