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Castling in the Square
… The Harvard Chess Club battles the clock and the competition by Paul Hoffman On the last Sunday in October, last year, four … memories, and the second is that they are calculating machines—that they think way ahead, exploring hundreds …
Issue: November-December 2002
Why Can't Computers Age With Us?
… when she retired in 1991, as were personal computers in the office. "I was also fortunate enough to have a … as possible." Marketing targeted at older adults is on the rise, Itzkowitz says, and SeniorNet, though a nonprofit …
Issue: July-August 2002
Football 2019: Penn 24, Harvard 20
… We’re beginning to sense a pattern. On Saturday at the Stadium, in its final home game of the season, the Harvard football team experienced its … on Senior Day for the 21 Crimson players from the class of 2020 and their family members in attendance.) The losing …
Lessons from an Unexpected Life
… that his blood was watery. I thought he might die in front of me. He has thalassemia, a severe anemia arising from the inheritance of two defective hemoglobin-production … To do so, they used highly complex and nearly unavailable machines that measure iron in the liver. The results were …
Issue: July-August 2009
Talented Eccentrics
… to create works that were both useful and beautiful—the two virtues went together. In 1984, Steven Levy’s book Hackers thrillingly documented this heroic age of computing. The last of the true hackers, in Levy’s term, is Richard Stallman …
Issue: March-April 2007
“Ambitious of Doing the World Some Good”
… One of the more interesting observations in Mapping the Future , an … inside journalism spend a lot of time worrying about crises inside journalism, just as lawyers spend time worrying about crises inside their profession. These anxieties, spilling …
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 …
Brevia
… provide both common spaces and calories. Food vendors on the first floor include Pavement Coffeehouse, Swissbäkers, Bon Me, Blackbird Doughnuts, … largest humanities gift in the university’s history. Enterprise Zone Advances Image courtesy of the Harvard Planning …
Issue: May-June 2018
From the Archives: Harvard’s Womanless History
… who retired last summer as 300 th Anniversary University Professor, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize (historians’ highest honor) for A Midwife’s Tale …
Academic Access, Education Reform
… Ava Clayton Spencer, who concluded 15 years of Harvard service as vice president for policy on June 30, was inaugurated as the eighth president of Bates College, in Lewiston, Maine, … unites excellence and opportunity at the heart of the enterprise, allowing talented students regardless of background or …
Cambridge 02138
… David Keith’s work on atmospheric engineering ( “Buffering the Sun,” July-August, page 36) is obviously both thoughtful … However, several aspects are troubling, and though Professor Keith recognizes and responds to these concerns, … change is only the most pressing of many ecological crises. Forceful attempts to solve this one could well make …
Issue: September-October 2013
Rudolph Tanzi: What Can People Do To Maintain Brain Health As They Age?
… What Can People Do To Maintain Brain Health As They Age? Harvard Medical School professor of neurology Rudolph Tanzi discusses how lifestyle choices …
Year One
… The Harvard community learned at least two things about … During a conversation at Massachusetts Hall a couple of weeks after Commencement, Bacow said, “This was a year in … he spoke at forums on the economy and on social enterprises at the Business School; a Kennedy School citizenship …
Issue: September-October 2019
The (Other) Yard
… When I first came to Harvard , the word "Radcliffe" evoked little more than confusion and … When friends and family spotted the name in the barrage of Harvard pamphlets and paraphernalia I received the summer … what Radcliffe was. Compounding my ignorance was a bit of defensiveness: I was attending Harvard and I could do …
Made in the U.S.A.
… The phrase “The Great American Novel” means something more than the sum of its parts. There are plenty of great American novels that … qualify, and neither does Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises , or Willa Cather’s The Lost Lady , even though …
Issue: January-February 2014