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Philanthropy in a New Key
… John Sage and Christopher Dearnley weren't like most of their peers at Harvard Business School. Neither had … of the Harvard Business School's Initiative on Social Enterprise. The way Sage chose to give appealed to McLean …
A Perfect 10
… Routing Penn and Yale in the pivotal games of a history-making season, the football … two perfect seasons, two Ivy titles, an overall record of 33-6, and four straight victories over Yale. Not since …
Issue: January-February 2005
Just Perfect
… Slate-gray skies and trepidation shrouded the home side of Harvard Stadium late in the afternoon of … long before the Murphy era—to the overwhelmingly efficient machines of a century ago molded by Percy D. Haughton, A.B. …
Issue: January-February 2015
William C. Kirby: Is China Ready for Leadership on the Global Stage?
… China is the most populous country on Earth , and until a few hundred … accurate? How is China coping with pressing issues of the day, from climate change to coronaviruses? In this … time ago. One of the large questions now is, is China's rise a rise to global leadership? Is the 21st century to be …
The Science of Happiness
… This doesn’t feel like a normal academic conference. True, the three-day Positive Psychology Summit is a sellout, with … at breaks, and the conference’s organizer, Shane Lopez of the University of Kansas, walks around smiling and … they had to do. “In our time, depression is on the rise,” Ben-Shahar says. “More and more students experience …
Issue: January-February 2007
Cambridge 02138
… Higher Ed Obligations Julie Reuben’s important review of how brand-obsessed colleges are neglecting the needs and purpose of higher education lists several … teaching cadre also corrodes the academic enterprise. Instructors who can be hired and fired at will have …
Issue: May-June 2023
Eyes Opened But Averted
… tickets to Cairo. I had done an about-face in my course of study, shifting from American and British history and … and Near Eastern languages and civilizations, focusing on the twentieth-century Middle East. The decision to head off … parents' stores, the late night calm of Zamalek, even the rise of the early morning smog over the Nile. It is hard to …
Issue: September-October 2004
Popular Science
… For thousands of ordinary people around the world, one of biology’s hardest problems is just a game. Both …
Issue: January-February 2014
The Campaign Computes
… As it proceeded during the fall semester, The Harvard Campaign featured a … gift (computer sciences); and interesting evidence of the effects ofsmaller-scale philanthropy across the … scarcer. Hence the emphasis on securing the research enterprise through the campaign. Innovation: $50 million. Under …
Issue: January-February 2015
Speak, Memory
… Ongoingness: The End of a Diary is a memoir that makes only one … it, Sarah Manguso ’96, a poet and contributor to Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, and The Paris Review, reflects on her oldest …
Issue: March-April 2015
Conflict in the Stacks
… Library history used to be the sleepiest of all academic disciplines. Compared with the gripping narratives of military or political history, it offered a fairly banal …
Issue: November-December 2003
Cambridge 02138
… Antibiotic Resistance Thanks for the fine article on antibiotic-resistant bacteria by … turned antibiotics into monster-makers. A favorite teacher of medical microbiology at the University of California, San … to indiscriminate timbering. I was dismayed, but not surprised, at drug companies’ current lack of interest in …
Issue: July-August 2014
The Eugenic Temptation
… The full-page advertisement in the Harvard Crimson a year ago came as no surprise. The text was straightforward: Intelligent, Athletic … medical issues. It was only the latest in a steady stream of smaller ads with similar messages--"healthy Caucasian," …
Clearing the Air
… Every day, most of us get in a car and drive. We adjust the temperature, maybe turn on the radio, and flip on the … in Santiago, Cairo, or Beijing. (Harvard now supplies these machines to other universities and to the EPA.) When the …
Issue: May-June 2005
From Daguerreotype to Photoshop
… In the photograph, Henry James Jr., the future eminent … are posed for a daguerreotype in the New York City studio of Mathew Brady, who several years later would make his … people were very disturbed. It had to do, in part, with the rise of journalism as a modern institution and a new ethical …
Issue: January-February 2009