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The Harvard Medalists of 2015
… Moose, Ph.D. ’68, and Robert D. Reischauer ’63—received the 2015 Harvard Medal for “extraordinary service to the … Alumni Association’s (HAA) annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. President Drew Faust read the citations, printed in italics below. The 2012 recipient of the HAA’s David T.W. McCord ’21 Lifetime Achievement …
A Cardiac Conundrum
… angina pectoris and heart attacks, but it wasn’t until the 1910s and 1920s that physicians began concerted efforts … to its now longstanding status as the leading cause of death for American adults. It has held that position … But for patients with stable coronary disease, who comprise a large share of angioplasty patients? It has not been …
Issue: March-April 2013
A Rosetta Stone for Earthquakes
… Istanbul , a city of 14 million people and a crossroads of cultural exchange dating back millennia, may also be … where Turkey’s next major earthquake strikes. Cities along the North Anatolian Fault, which stretches from eastern …
Issue: November-December 2017
Networked
… upcoming election, you are 10 percent more likely to go to the polls--and others in your household are 6 percent more … remember it depends partly on its position in a network of words that sound similar. And when a cell in your body … that will supplant the myths. It may come as a surprise that friends’ statements of opinion can have such …
Issue: May-June 2010
An Artful Business
… Aiming to create their own “art stimulus package” during the 2008-09 economic … bakery in the East Village. Ani, a Yale graduate, was tired of cycling through internships. “There seemed no good reason … idiosyncratic, locally owned shops and restaurants that comprise hip Boerum Hill. It mounts solo exhibits and group …
Issue: September-October 2013
Unleashing Harvard’s Art Museums
… Abundant light and glass will greet visitors when the Harvard Art Museums reopen at 32 Quincy Street on … November 16. The centrally located Calderwood Courtyard now rises through five stories to a glass roof. Natural light from this “lantern” suffuses the space and …
Issue: November-December 2014
Cambridge 02138
… music (“ Sound as Ever ,” July-August, page 44). He opened the ears of a generation with his fusion of country and rock, and in … many will serve to illustrate. Consider three national crises that have had Harvard participation at the assembly …
Issue: September-October 2023
Bringing Pride and Plans to Life
… In Uganda , there is a hierarchy of houses. The poorest live in huts … a patient’s viral load comes down and her immune-cell count rises, her appetite comes back. If she’s short on food, all …
The Enigmatic Mr. Putin
… Who is Mr. Putin?” The question reverberated in world capitals when Boris … Vladimirovich Putin as his choice for prime minister of Russia and as his heir when a presidential election … that were spectacularly on display in two successive crises late in his second term: the financial emergency of …
Issue: May-June 2007
Harvard Aims to Reinvent Business-Engineering Education
… The most interesting new collaboration at Harvard—between the schools of business (HBS) and engineering and applied sciences … in the surrounding network of research and business enterprises. The S.M./M.B.A. also signals the known and …
The Lucky Effect
… in a white coat tells you about Jane, who found $5 on the sidewalk; Johnny, who was splashed by a passing car; … don’t like ) or a large smiling face ( really like ) or one of four in-between faces. Which face would you pick? If … in a recent study of bias in children, you’ll surprise everyone with how much more you prefer the lucky to the …
Issue: March-April 2007
The Outsiders’ Insider
… Backstage at the Montalban Theater in Los Angeles, Franklin Leonard ’00 … sandwich to the green room. It’s his party, in a manner of speaking, and the table’s been set with beer and wine and … (“combat with weapons,” “$1-10mm [budget],” “twist/surprise ending,” and “female protagonist [diversity]”). Writers …
Issue: July-August 2016
Literary Warrior
… The study where Mark Helprin writes his novels and short … a fireplace at one end, and some fishing rods hang aloft on display. Everything is in immaculate order. The … things. But if, as we have so many times before, we rise to the occasion, we will not enjoy merely the illusions …
Issue: May-June 2005
A Nearly Perfect Book
… Many poems enact wild rides of the imagination, but John Ashbery’s “Self-Portrait in a … explains. “He told me, ‘Go to the top— ask .’ ”) To his surprise, Vendler agreed. She wrote an introduction, which Hoyem …
Issue: September-October 2013
Vintage Vitality
… ’83, received a startling finding from a physical exam: in the previous year, his stature had shrunk from six feet, two inches, to six-one. A medical workup showed a “lot of osteoporosis. I had the spine of a 70-year-old man, … were compressed and all my disks flattened. This was a surprise. I was in good condition—I’d worn out two indoor …
Issue: November-December 2009