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Jim and Deb Fallows in his hometown, Redlands, California
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James ’70 and Deborah Fallows ’71 explore “what the hell is happening in America.”
4.6.18
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At the JFK Jr. Forum on Monday, panelists discussed the case surrounding Michael Brown's death. From left, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Jason Pollock, Lezley McSpadden, Benjamin Crump, Jasmine Rand, and Ashley Spillane.
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A Kennedy School discussion on new evidence and historical precedents in Michael Brown's death
A polling site at Cambridge Queen’s Head
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The outcome means that thousands of graduate students can begin collective bargaining with the University.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The decorated author is best known for her novels and feminist writing.
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David Shumway Jones
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Historian David Shumway Jones warns that the cost of precision medicine might lead to higher levels of inequality in healthcare.
Dean Stanley Shaw and Dr. Deborah Schrag
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Physicians bring data science to bear on patient health and wellness information.
Illustration by Jason Ford
Interventions that mobilize family support networks have powerful effects.
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Interventions that mobilize family support networks have powerful effects.
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The Undergraduate chooses a concentration.
The son and nephew of MLB players, Quinn Hoffman ’20 has played the game for as long as he can remember.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
For Quinn Hoffman, baseball is the family business.
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Jim and Deb Fallows in his hometown, Redlands, California
Photograph by Coco McKown
James ’70 and Deborah Fallows ’71 explore “what the hell is happening in America.”
Sunset in Sampela, a village standing a few hundred yards from land in southwestern Indonesia. The nearest sizable island with an airstrip is a two-hour boat ride away.
Photograph by David HuIn Indonesia, the Bajau fishermen’s way of life is under pressure.
Photograph courtesy of Jack Lueders-Booth/Gallery Kayafas
For seven years, Jack Lueders-Booth (above, left) visited the Massachusetts Correctional Institution-Framingham to teach a photography workshop several days each month. Roaming the grounds, he took women prisoners’ portraits with Polaroid, Leica, and medium-format film cameras, documenting scenes from daily life.
The portraits in Jack Lueders-Booth’s 40-year-old series feel even more vivid today.
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Sleeper’s summer home sprawls across Eastern Point, with views of Gloucester Harbor.
Photograph by Eric Roth/Courtesy of Historic New England
A sprawling house museum celebrates decorative arts and the creative spirit of Henry Davis Sleeper.
Among the museum's “Ugly Truth” figures are Aunt Jemima and golliwogs.
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The National Black Doll Museum
Abbi of Bacabi (1978), among Cannon’s last and unfinished works
Image © 2017 Estate of T. C. Cannon.
Works by T.C. Cannon at the Peabody Essex Museum
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Ideas for the president-elect’s consideration, from costs and partnerships to Allston and admissions
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The Undergraduate chooses a concentration.
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Wim Wenders speaking at Sanders Theatre on April 2
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Wim Wenders delivers the final installment in the 2018 Norton Lectures on Cinema.
Mara Sidmore, artistic director of Applied Theatre Practice at the Bok Center
Photograph by Jim HarrisonA theatre troupe aims for higher ed.
Sunset in Sampela, a village standing a few hundred yards from land in southwestern Indonesia. The nearest sizable island with an airstrip is a two-hour boat ride away.
Photograph by David HuIn Indonesia, the Bajau fishermen’s way of life is under pressure.
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Cyclists at the Harvest River Bridge, which opened last year on the newest section of the trail
Photograph by Jessica Mink
Cycling the Neponset River Greenway
Harvard sprinter Gabby Thomas ’19
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Late winter and early spring highlights
Seth Towns ’20, the Ivy League Player of the Year, scored a game-high 24 points in the Crimson’s 74-55 victory over Cornell in the Ivy tournament semifinals.
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The basketball teams fall short of the NCAAs.
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David Davidson
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A dining executive on Harvard’s changing food environment
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When teaching was gendered, Porsche populism, and Harvard’s presidential symbolism
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From left: Jon Morosi '04, Michael Hill '93, Ben Crockett '02, David Forst '98, Jeff Bridich '00, and Peter Woodfork '99
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Varsity Club
A Harvard-in-baseball symposium, just before spring training
Broadsheet is on Kirkland Street in Cambridge.
Photographs by Jane Messinger
An antidote to Starbucksification?
Erica Viscio, a.k.a. “Maul,” slams by opponents on the track.
Photograph by Steve Jurkovic
Harvard ties to the increasingly popular, rigorous sport
A flyer Gorey illustrated for a 1952 Poets' Theatre performance.
Edward Gorey/ Announcement for The Poets’ Theatre performance in Fogg Museum Court, May, 1952/ Offset lithography on paper, 5 1/2 x 14 in./©The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust
Edward Gorey’s own art collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum
The official 2018 slates
A celebration of significant alumni and shared interest groups
Erica Walker
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Erica Walker aims to put “tools and data into the hands of people who can use it.”
Theresa McCulla in the archives center of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Photograph by T.J. Kirkpatrick
A historian tracks the craft-beer boom, and the evolution of American taste.