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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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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The decorated author is best known for her novels and feminist writing.
Wim Wenders speaking at Sanders Theatre on April 2
Photograph courtesy of the Mahindra Humanities Center
Wim Wenders delivers the final installment in the 2018 Norton Lectures on Cinema.
Ladder faculty counts in the the faculty of arts and sciences, 1998 to 2017
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Progress and barriers to diversifying Harvard’s faculty
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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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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.
Illustration by Jason Ford
Interventions that mobilize family support networks have powerful effects.
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Abbi of Bacabi (1978), among Cannon’s last and unfinished works
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Works by T.C. Cannon at the Peabody Essex Museum
Pammy’s jewel-box interior
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Best new restaurants in and around Cambridge
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Ideas for the president-elect’s consideration, from costs and partnerships to Allston and admissions
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Wim Wenders speaking at Sanders Theatre on April 2
Photograph courtesy of the Mahindra Humanities Center
Wim Wenders delivers the final installment in the 2018 Norton Lectures on Cinema.
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.
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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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.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
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
Illustration by Michael Witte
When teaching was gendered, Porsche populism, and Harvard’s presidential symbolism
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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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Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver races her brother Ted and others in Washington, D.C., to kick off a 1975 Special Olympics fundraising coast-to-coast marathon.
Photograph by Bettmann/Getty Images
Brief life of a world-changer: 1921-2009
Linnea Olson, shown with her dog, Kumo, has survived 13 years with lung cancer.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Using precision medicine, Harvard researchers target cancer.
Illustration by Jason Ford
Interventions that mobilize family support networks have powerful effects.
John Lewis
Photograph courtesy of Congressman John Lewis
A civil-rights leader returns to campus.
Nell Scovell
Photograph by Robert Trachtenberg
TV writer Nell Scovell looks back on Just the Funny Parts.
The nine-foot-high depiction of Richard T. Greener, A.B. 1870, by sculptor Jon Hair, is the first statue of an individual on the University of South Carolina’s central campus. Its unveiling on February 21 coincided with the inauguration of a symposium in Greener’s honor.
Photograph courtesy of the Office of Communications & Public Affairs, University of South Carolina
The University of South Carolina recognizes its first African-American professor—Richard T. Greener, A.B. 1870.
Rapp focused on war crimes and criminals as U.S. ambassador-at-large.
Courtesy of United States Mission Geneva/Wikimedia/Creative Commons
Stephen J. Rapp seeks justice for Syrian victims of war crimes.
At Jefferson Laboratory, Nobel Prize winners gather to remember one of their own.