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Claudine Gay, social science dean and Cowett professor of government and of African and African American studies
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The initative includes interdisciplinary conversation, annual symposia, and a postdoc program.
Nadya Okamoto
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Nadya Okamoto ’20 is juggling wider aspirations and school work.
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Growth in Harvard healthcare costs moderates.
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Oral bacteria can lodge in the gut and trigger inflammatory bowel conditions.
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How market forces have made American higher education radically unequal
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The push to build flying, thinking, robot swarms
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Nadya Okamoto ’20 is juggling wider aspirations and school work.
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Undergraduates return to newly improved digs.
Rachel L. Gable
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How some colleges help first-generation and low-income students succeed
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Fellow classics concentrators Sam Beck ’16 (left) and E.E. Cummings ’15
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Davenport at home in 1975, with two of his own works behind him. An image of Ezra Pound by Richard Avedon partners Davenport’s portrait.
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Brief life of a polymathic stylist: 1927-2005
A young girl jumps rope on the sidewalk next to her family’s belongings after they received a court order of eviction that was carried out by McLennan County deputy constables in Waco, Texas. Families like hers are the kind of clients badly in need of legal representation—and most often unlikely to receive it.
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America’s unfulfilled promise of “equal justice under law”
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Celebrating Thanksgiving at Old Sturbridge Village
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Cold-weather treats at Old Sturbridge Village
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Rare books and ephemera at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair
Cooking lessons at the French Cultural Center
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Greater Boston’s cultural centers offer a lot more than language classes.
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President Drew Faust describes Harvard’s efforts to evaluate how well—and what exactly—its students learn.
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Bob Dylan in 1965. Already, the classical world was starting to influence his writing.
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In a new book, classicist Richard Thomas explores Bob Dylan’s literary ties to ancient Greece and Rome.
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Anne Fadiman ’74 recalls her father, Clifton, in an excerpt from The Wine Lover’s Daughter
Maureen Freely
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Maureen Freely ’74, longtime translator of Orhan Pamuk, shares the nuances of bringing a text from one language to another.
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Freshman Harvard quarterback Jake Smith showed some moves as he slalomed through Princeton defenders on a 26-yard run.
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A shellacking in the Stadium
Harvard's Charlie Booker deployed a mighty stiff arm to fend off Lafayette's Philip Parham. The Crimson junior rampaged his way to a career-high 159 yards on the ground.
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The Crimson gets back on track.
On one of his 11 tackles, Harvard senior defensive back Tim Haehl wrapped up Cornell's James Hubbard after a seven-yard gain.
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Cornell inexorably outmuscles Harvard.
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Fellow classics concentrators Sam Beck ’16 (left) and E.E. Cummings ’15
What one undergraduate learned
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Twenty submissions have been selected as semifinalists to replace the final line in Harvard’s alma mater.
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This 1939 acetate disc of Ezra Pound’s full recording bears a handwritten annotation that reads “’Altaforte’ not to be played” and scratch marks to prevent the poem from being played accidentally.
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A Carpenter Center exhibition traces the history of a once-banned poem.
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Claudine Gay, social science dean and Cowett professor of government and of African and African American studies
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
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The initative includes interdisciplinary conversation, annual symposia, and a postdoc program.
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Claudine Gay, social science dean and Cowett professor of government and of African and African American studies
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
The initative includes interdisciplinary conversation, annual symposia, and a postdoc program.
Nadya Okamoto
Courtesy of Nadya Okamoto for Cambridge City Council
Nadya Okamoto ’20 is juggling wider aspirations and school work.
Photograph by iStock/hayatikayhan
Growth in Harvard healthcare costs moderates.
Sunil Amrith
Courtesy of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
A faculty member and two GSD affiliates are honored.
The Winthrop House library
Photograph by Peter Vanderwarker
Undergraduates return to newly improved digs.
Rachel L. Gable
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JC
How some colleges help first-generation and low-income students succeed
Nicco Mele
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The director of the Shorenstein Center on how the Internet came to mean so much to him.
Michelle A. Williams
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Michelle Williams, a year into her role as Public Health School dean
