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A large surplus last year—but cautions about the future
Claudine Gay, social science dean and Cowett professor of government and of African and African American studies
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The initative includes interdisciplinary conversation, annual symposia, and a postdoc program.
Nadya Okamoto ’20 is juggling wider aspirations and school work.
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Oral bacteria can lodge in the gut and trigger inflammatory bowel conditions.
Machine learning may raise the potential for predicting where—and when—an earthquake might strike.
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Nadya Okamoto ’20 is juggling wider aspirations and school work.
Undergraduates return to newly improved digs.
How some colleges help first-generation and low-income students succeed
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What one undergraduate learned
Anne Fadiman ’74 recalls her father, Clifton, in an excerpt from The Wine Lover’s Daughter
Maureen Freely ’74, longtime translator of Orhan Pamuk, shares the nuances of bringing a text from one language to another.
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Rare books and ephemera at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair
Greater Boston’s cultural centers offer a lot more than language classes.
Harvard’s Houghton Library explores “Altered States: Sex, Drugs, and Transcendence.”
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Readers comment on criminal injustices, alumni who died in Vietnam, political correctness, and more.
President Drew Faust describes Harvard’s efforts to evaluate how well—and what exactly—its students learn.
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Maureen Freely ’74, longtime translator of Orhan Pamuk, shares the nuances of bringing a text from one language to another.
Stephanie Burt, recently named co-editor of poetry at The Nation, in her office at Harvard
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Stephanie Burt ’94 is the kind of poetry critic who provokes anger in other poetry critics.
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Freshman Harvard quarterback Jake Smith showed some moves as he slalomed through Princeton defenders on a 26-yard run.
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A shellacking in the Stadium
Harvard's Charlie Booker deployed a mighty stiff arm to fend off Lafayette's Philip Parham. The Crimson junior rampaged his way to a career-high 159 yards on the ground.
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The Crimson gets back on track.
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What one undergraduate learned
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Twenty submissions have been selected as semifinalists to replace the final line in Harvard’s alma mater.
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March-April 2017
A young girl jumps rope on the sidewalk next to her family’s belongings after they received a court order of eviction that was carried out by McLennan County deputy constables in Waco, Texas. Families like hers are the kind of clients badly in need of legal representation—and most often unlikely to receive it.
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America’s unfulfilled promise of “equal justice under law”
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April 2007: Drew Gilpin Faust at her then-office as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
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Tradition and the twenty-first century were tangled together in Barker Center’s Thompson Room on the afternoon of February 11, when Drew...
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