The Harvard Gazette

Sarah Sweeney

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“Living at Quincy was one of the coolest things I’ve ever done in my life,” said John McMillian, a former resident tutor, who has just published "Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America.”

Notes from underground

Former Quincy House tutor back with book on alternative press

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DateMarch 3, 2011July 26, 2019

“Cities succeed today by connecting people and enabling them to learn from one another," said economist Edward Glaeser, whose new book "Triumph of the City" upends the myths that cities are unhealthy, poor, crime-ridden, and environmentally unfriendly.

Cities on a hill

Edward Glaeser praises the blessings of living in a metropolis

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DateMarch 3, 2011May 31, 2019

“The human head is remarkably different than any other mammal’s,” explains evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman in his new book. “We have wide, round heads, vertical foreheads, prominent eyebrows … We’re the only primate without a snout, and we alone have an external nose.”

He’s got a head start

Daniel Lieberman probes how key human body part evolved

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DateFebruary 17, 2011

Snow boots? Check. Parka? Check. Umbrella? Why, what a clever snow-shielding weapon!

Not so wonderland

Snow woes and winter blues have taken their toll

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DateFebruary 17, 2011

Gazette staffer wins poetry prize

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DateFebruary 15, 2011October 16, 2018

Keynote speaker at the service honoring Martin Luther King Jr. was the Rev. Gregory Boyle, executive director of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, the largest gang member intervention program in the country. Boyle told his audience that we must dispel the belief that some lives are worth more than other lives. “Gang members have taught me just about everything of value in my life,” he said.

‘That was his dream’

Diverse, interfaith ceremony extols King’s legacy

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DateFebruary 8, 2011July 26, 2019

“I grew up in California, first in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district and then in a nearby suburb much like the one in which ‘Life in Miniature’ is set,” said lecturer Linda Schlossberg. “I was one of those kids who was always reading, which I think gave me a good understanding from an early age of how voice and character work.

Troubled youth

Coming of age shadowed by mother’s mental illness in debut novel

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DateFebruary 3, 2011April 16, 2019

Coach Jay Weiss: “We try to get better each time we’re on the mat, whether it be practice or competition. I’m always confident things will turn for the better. Why not? I have a saying on my desk that reads, ‘Mundi ex igne factus est,’ which means ‘the world is made of fire.’ It’s a reminder that suffering and struggle are the ways to truth, to understanding … We learn the best through adverse situations."

‘Made of fire’

For coach and his wrestlers, adversity is a motivating force

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DateFebruary 2, 2011May 6, 2019

In her regular gig, Miss Conduct, whose real name is Robin Abrahams, doles out advice on readers’ most perplexing dilemmas. But on Jan. 18, she answered questions on workplace etiquette from Harvard’s workforce.

Expert etiquette

Harvard employees get workplace tips from Globe columnist

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DateJanuary 19, 2011March 21, 2019

Faced with a seven-game losing streak, Harvard hockey coach Ted Donato is unfazed. “We’re confident that if we focus on continuing to improve, we’ll have success and we’ll be competitive within our league and on a national level,” said Donato.

Room for improvement

Hockey squad hopes to reverse course after tough start

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DateDecember 16, 2010

Research for early modern scholars was painstaking, says Ann Blair, author of "Too Much To Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age." "They worked by candlelight early in the morning, and deep into the night, sharpening quills by knife, and drying the ink afterward with a sprinkling of sand. Everything was written out by hand, and if you wanted to store information in more than one place, or include it in a letter, you had to copy it out that many times.”

Ye olde information overload

Author finds being inundated with data is centuries-old phenomenon

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DateDecember 16, 2010March 18, 2019

“I was amazed by the personal intensity with which the justices pursued their beliefs and views,” said Noah Feldman, whose book “Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices” chronicles the dealings between justices Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, Robert Jackson, and William O. Douglas.

Feeling the pinch

FDR’s ‘Scorpions’ bit and bickered, but got the job done

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DateDecember 2, 2010April 2, 2019

“It’s a book about trying to answer questions, even though you’re not really going to find an answer,” said writer Suzanne Berne, who is out with a new memoir about her grandmother. “People contain history, and they contain all sorts of connections to events they lived through.”

Mystery woman

Berne gathers clues to grandmother’s life for ‘Missing Lucile’

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DateNovember 18, 2010April 17, 2019

“Obama is a sophisticated and incisive student of American history, American law, and American political thought,” said James Kloppenberg, author of "Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition."

The measure of the man

Historian Kloppenberg analyzes Obama through his writings

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DateNovember 4, 2010May 2, 2019

Allston resident Lude Telfort and her children, Jordan Francis, 3, and Prya Francis, 11, learn about dry ice and chemistry from Brandon Silverman '12 inside the Harvard Allston Education Portal during the Halloween-themed community event.

‘Treat and Greet’ in Allston

Harvard hosts community festivities for Halloween

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DateNovember 2, 2010April 23, 2019

A ‘whif’ of a breakthrough

Innovator writes manifesto on a new lab model

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DateOctober 21, 2010

Despite weighing in at a hefty 280 pounds, Chris LeRoy '11, starting center on the Harvard football team, has a delicate touch when he's playing the music of Billy Joel or Ray Charles on the piano.
Jon Chase/Harvard Staff photographer

Field goals

In his senior year, center Chris LeRoy becomes a starter

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DateOctober 20, 2010July 26, 2019

Clif Colby, scientific instrument maker at the Rowland Institute, is one of dozens of faculty and staff being honored for 25 years of service at Harvard. But don't count on a 26th year — Colby retired as of Sept. 30. “I’ll still miss the people,” he said. “This is a great place, it really is.”

25 years of service

Oct. 13 event honors dozens of employees on reaching milestone

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DateOctober 7, 2010June 19, 2019

“We wanted the space to be calming and relaxing, which was nice after fitting the center into an office suite for many years,” said Jeanne Mahon, director of the Center for Wellness. The newly renovated center offers "proactive and preventative" services like meditation, massage, acupuncture, and others, which all have enormous health benefits.

Relaxation station

Updated wellness hub has much to offer Harvard affiliates

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DateOctober 7, 2010June 19, 2019

Water utility expert Susan Leal helped transform San Francisco's unsafe water system. Now a senior fellow at the Advanced Leadership Initiative, Leal has co-authored a book on saving the world's water resources with Peter Rogers, Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering in Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Spouting off

Book offers solutions to a global predicament

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DateOctober 7, 2010April 17, 2019

Dean of Harvard Law School Martha Minow witnessed segregation firsthand as a schoolgirl in Illinois and later in Washington, D.C. Now her new book "In Brown's Wake" explores the repercussions of Brown v. Board of Education, which declared segregation unconstitutional, and, says Minow, "became a motor for educational improvement."

The golden ruling

Minow tackles the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education

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DateSeptember 16, 2010April 9, 2019

With the leadership of captain Collin Zych '11, seen here, who was named preseason Ivy League Player of the Year by Sports Network, head coach Tim Murphy is confident in his team, but keeping an eye on this season's competition. “We need to be a mentally and physically stronger and tougher team than we were a year ago to beat the very best teams on our schedule.”

The boys are back in town

Evening home game against Holy Cross will kick off fall football

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DateSeptember 16, 2010

“Cooking never, ever got into university,” said renowned chef Ferran Adrià during a public lectures at Harvard's Loeb Drama Center. “Tomorrow, all the world will be talking about this moment.”

In good taste

New physics class hosts pioneering chefs of food science

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DateSeptember 8, 2010July 11, 2019

Easy blend of old and new

Retirees flock to class creating computer programming

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DateSeptember 2, 2010May 31, 2019

“I have been lingering on some of these poems since I was 13, when I memorized many of the famous ones,” recalls Helen Vendler, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University and author of "Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries."

Vendler on Dickinson

Fresh insights on Amherst’s own

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DateSeptember 2, 2010

Spurred to write a book after finding a lack of literature on Humanism, Harvard Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein wanted to share what nonreligious people do believe in, instead of only what they don't.

Rebel with a cause

In 'Good Without God,' Greg Epstein introduces Humanism

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DateOctober 29, 2009

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