Tag: Sarah Sweeney

  • Nation & World

    Poetry in motion

    Something about Harvard, one of the world’s most rigorous universities also helps poets to blossom. It has a lyric legacy that spans hundreds of years and helped to shape the world’s literary canon.

    12 minutes
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    Filling a gap between teachers, troubled children

    Child psychiatrist Nancy Rappaport follows up her 2009 memoir that explored her mother’s suicide with a user-friendly guide for teachers dealing with behaviorally challenged students.

    3 minutes
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    In the swim of things

    The men’s and women’s teams teach lessons to the community in the spring and fall to help fund their training trips in winter.

    5 minutes
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    Whither Guantánamo

    In his new book, “Guantánamo: An American History,” lecturer Jonathan Hansen uncovers the rich and controversial history of an American empire on the tip of Cuba.

    4 minutes
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    Chicago as urban microcosm

    For his new book, Robert Sampson studied the Second City’s ups and downs for 15 years to outline patterns for many modern American cities.

    4 minutes
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    The West, plagued by self-doubt

    In his new book, noted historian Niall Ferguson sees Europe and America as facing a profound crisis of confidence in what the future holds.

    4 minutes
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    Using the bully pulpit

    In his new memoir, former Harvard Medical School Dean Joseph Martin recalls a small-town childhood, an attraction to medicine, and the ups and downs of leadership.

    4 minutes
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    Powerhouses in the making

    With both the men’s and women’s squash teams still undefeated, the teams look to capitalize on their momentum when the season resumes after winter break.

    5 minutes
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    Easy like Lionel Richie

    Singer Lionel Richie visits Harvard to receive the Harvard Foundation’s inaugural Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award, dining with undergraduates and recalling his career.

    4 minutes
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    Swimmer comes up aces

    A top swimmer with hopes for a national title, Chuck Katis also oversees The Magic of Miracles, a nonprofit that entertains sick children.

    4 minutes
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    Interesting readers, as well as writers

    English Professor Leah Price focuses on leading authors and the titles they love in “Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books.”

    4 minutes
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    On the side of the angels

    In his latest book, psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker cites data to show that the world is becoming far more peaceful than you might have thought.

    4 minutes
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    The line that defines

    A new book by Rachel St. John unearths the colorful history of the 2,000-mile U.S. border with Mexico.

    4 minutes
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    A chance at an Ivy title

    After an inconsistent season and a late win streak, the women’s soccer team has two games left. Its eye is on the prize, the league championship.

    3 minutes
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    Harvard, then and now

    Published to commemorate Harvard’s 375th anniversary, “Explore Harvard,” a collection of contemporary and historical photographs, showcases the myriad intellectual exchanges that make the University a citadel of learning.

    6 minutes
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    Fight fiercely, Harvard

    Boxing has longstanding roots at the University. A required sport in the halcyon days of Theodore Roosevelt, today the Harvard Boxing Club is keeping tradition alive, but with a modern twist — its inclusion of women.

    4 minutes
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    Voices from the trees

    To celebrate the University’s 375th anniversary, excerpts of famous speeches will play on loop from trees in Harvard Yard.

    4 minutes
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    Dig this

    Harvard senior volleyball player Christine Wu, set to become the team’s all-time leader in digs — or saving passes — hopes to make the pros before heading to medical school.

    3 minutes
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    A tale of two sisters

    Radcliffe fellow Tayari Jones’ new novel, steeped in the South, shows the knotty complexity of families’ lives.

    4 minutes
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    ‘Porgy’ in the park

    Common Spaces, the initiative that encourages community in and around Harvard Yard, kicked off its fall programming with four songs by the cast of the American Repertory Theater’s “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess.”

    2 minutes
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    Calling the ‘summer dogs’

    After a summer of workouts, Harvard football players look to their opening game against Holy Cross, hoping to create a season to remember.

    3 minutes
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    The classroom, circa 2050

    Cambridge-Harvard Summer Academy encourages students to design an offbeat, futuristic high school, applying geometry lessons in the process.

    4 minutes
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    Garden party

    The Harvard Farmers’ Market is back and its offerings are fresher, better than ever.

    2 minutes
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    The one, indispensable book

    A handful of authors featured in Harvard Bound over the past year answer the question: What is an essential book for today’s graduates — and why? Here are their suggestions as the newest Harvard degree-holders head out into the world.

    6 minutes
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    Reflecting other worlds

    Documentary photographer Susan Meiselas, Ed.M. ’71, receives the 2011 Harvard Arts Medal as part of the annual Arts First Festival.

    3 minutes
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    Why and how

    Professor Marjorie Garber’s new book examines “why we read literature, why we study it, and why it doesn’t need to have an application someplace else in order to be definitive in its talking about human life and culture.”

    3 minutes
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    Fleeing America

    In “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World,” historian Maya Jasanoff reveals the lesser-known history of loyalists after the Revolution.

    3 minutes
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    On the go

    Freshmen Morgan Powell and Mariah Pewarski balance schoolwork with playing two sports — and wouldn’t have it any other way.

    4 minutes
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    Among the missing

    Harvard Extension School instructor Sarah Braunstein’s new novel “The Sweet Relief of Missing Children” plumbs the vulnerability of childhood.

    3 minutes
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    A sort of homecoming

    On Harvard’s annual Housing Day, freshmen receive their housing assignments for the next three years.

    4 minutes