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Combating elitism
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05/06/2008
The New York Observer reports on Michelle Obama's "long, impassioned" speech last night, in which she tried to shake the elitist label applied to her husband and herself.
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Daniel Pipes
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04/30/2008
His characterization of a Brooklyn school as a madrassa set off a storm of controversy.
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Al Franken
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04/30/2008
Tax evasion is no joke.
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Meg Whitman
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04/29/2008
Where's Whitman?
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Barack Obama
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04/24/2008
The infinite primary: Pennsylvania results.
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The Accountant Who Roared
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04/10/2008
Linda Bilmes opens the books on the Iraq war and the Pentagon’s financial secrecy.
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Assessing race in America, Obama calls pastor divisive
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03/18/2008
Barack Obama, J.D. 1991
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The Anti-Utopian
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Magazine Archives
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March/April 2008
Author Chris Hedges talks about new atheists, his faith in the religious impulse, and how to reverse America's march towards plutocracy.
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Bitsie’s Pieces
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Magazine Archives
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March/April 2008
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Golden State Glamour
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Magazine Archives
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March/April 2008
The Harvard-meets-Hollywood lifestyle: where to live, where to go to get away, how to get there in style, and the clothes and jewelry that will guarantee you look the part.
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Most Likely to Exceed
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Magazine Archives
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March/April 2008
Here’s how four Ivys stack up in the race for famous progeny.
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12.
Book Ends
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Magazine Archives
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March/April 2008
Here’s how a quartet of much-discussed recent books fared at the cash registers.
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Books: Food for Thought
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Magazine Archives
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March/April 2008
With spring imminent, which authors are about to bloom?
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Talking Out of School
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Magazine Archives
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March/April 2008
A Horace Mann teacher's decision to spill insider secrets cost him his job. Now he wants payback.
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Candles in the Wind
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Magazine Archives
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March/April 2008
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16.
Al Franken. Seriously.
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Magazine Archives
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March/April 2008
The SNL scribe toiled in the trenches of late-night comedy until he became the Democrats’ answer to right-wing media. Now Al Franken wants not just your laughter, but also your vote. Why is this man running?.
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Popcorn Diplomacy
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Magazine Archives
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March/April 2008
Jehane Noujaim believes that “Once you get to know someone, you can’t kill them.” Her new global film project, Pangea Day, puts her thesis to the test.
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Crimson Tide
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Magazine Archives
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March/April 2008
From Conan O'Brien to Natalie Portman to Homer Simpson, Harvardians have painted Tinseltown red. On the pages that follow, meet the actors, writers, directors, and dealmakers who have brought 02138 to 90210.
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Mayor Bloomberg: 'Hillary should pray I get in the race'
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02/08/2008
Michael Bloomberg, MBA 1966
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20.
Considering TheRoot.com
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Editorial Blogs
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01/30/2008
Skip Gates calls his new online venture a magazine? But is the whole thing really advertorial for his DNA testing company?
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Romney's wallet keeps him in the race
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01/24/2008
Mitt Romney, J.D. 1975, MBA 1975
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Bill Clinton: Race, gender key is S.C.
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01/24/2008
Barack Obama, J.D. 1991
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Washington diary: Tussling over race
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01/16/2008
Kannon Shanmugam, A.B. '93, J.D. '98
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Drew Faust On the Hot Seat
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Editorial Blogs
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01/14/2008
After she's accused of dissing public education, Harvard's president, to paraphrase Gomer Pyle, denies, denies, denies.
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Obama Rising, Romney Going Down
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Editorial Blogs
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01/04/2008
It was a mixed day for Harvard grads running for president yesterday.....
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Harvard's Wealth Un-levels the Playing Field
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12/29/2007
Harvard's financial aid package is great for middle-class students. But what happens to smaller colleges that can't afford to match Harvard's money? And will it actually reduce aid to poor families?
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Liz Mermin, A.B. 1993
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12/21/2007
In her January 2008, UK-release documentary Shot In Bombay, Mermin captures the behind-the-scenes drama of the making and release of a Bollywood film, Shootout at Lokhandwala, featuring Bollywood screen legend Sanjay Dutt in his last film before serving a six-year prison sentence for illegal arms possession related to the perpetrators of the 1993 Bombay bomb blasts. The chaos surrounding Dutt’s court case and dramatic displays of adoration and condemnation the proceedings provoked from the stars' fans drove the volatile plot for Mermin’s documentary.
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A Sunday Visit with Peter Gomes
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Editorial Blogs
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12/09/2007
A Boston Globe column about Peter Gomes shows only what a minor-league newspaper the Globe has become.
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Bashing James Watson
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Editorial Blogs
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11/29/2007
A New York Times reviewer really, really doesn't like James Watson. Is the scientist getting worse than he deserves?
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Recovering Clayton
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Magazine Archives
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November/December 2007
George and Azita Fatheree seemed to have the perfect life: professional success, a loving marriage, a beautiful baby boy. Then a mysterious illness turned their son into a stranger.
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Fund Racer
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Magazine Archives
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November/December 2007
A money man's hasty exit leaves Harvard in the lurch.
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Uncovering The Klan
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Magazine Archives
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November/December 2007
Two pop economists crunch the numbers on America's most infamous hate group.
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Rewriting Harvard
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Magazine Archives
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November/December 2007
Wiki revisionism
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Season's Readings
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Magazine Archives
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November/December 2007
Books to keep you warm and buzzy this winter.
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Up For Debate
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Magazine Archives
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November/December 2007
Denzel Washington takes on the Harvard debate team.
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The Scandals List
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Magazine Archives
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November/December 2007
A Harvard alumnus in flagrante delicto? Veritas? Looking back, sex scandals are actually a long-running Harvard tradition. Grads (and undergrads) have been caught with their pants down since at least the 18th century.
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Harvard vs. Harvard
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Magazine Archives
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November/December 2007
Drugs! Greed! Kinky sex!— how this match made in heaven turned into the breakup from hell.
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No Free Speech at Harvard?
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11/08/2007
That's what one faculty member is saying—and he happens to be a high-profile critic of Israel. This could get ugly.....
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, A.B. ’76
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10/30/2007
In Nigeria she earned the nickname Okonjo-Wahala, or Trouble Woman, for her aggressive anti-corruption measures.
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Eliot Spitzer, JD '84
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Tribe
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10/29/2007
Real ID That Spitzer Now Embraces Has Been Widely Criticized
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A Skip Gates Story
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Editorial Blogs
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09/28/2007
A biographer of a family's hidden secret tells how Skip Gates works a story.
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Yale Beats Harvard....
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Editorial Blogs
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09/27/2007
...in something far more important than a football game: the money race.
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43.
Taking on the Testocrats
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Magazine Archives
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September / October 2007
I went to visit Harvard
Law Professor Lani
Guinier late on a recent
Friday afternoon and
dawdled in her outer office for an hour as she met
with students. Through
her door, I could hear
voices bubbling away
with the excitement of
ideas. At last Guinier
ushered the students,
three women, out of her
office. “Did you see them
laughing?” Guinier says.
“We had fun.”
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Fear Fighter
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Magazine Archives
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September / October 2007
In her new book, The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior--And How We Can Reclaim Our Courage, longtime Harvard Medical School psychologist Martha Stout diagnoses Americans as a traumatized populace. Are we a nation of scaredy-cats?
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Night Troubles
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Magazine Archives
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September / October 2007
While working the night shift in Vienna's Kaiser Franz Josef Hospital years ago, Austrian-born Dr. Eva Schernhammer was disturbed by an unusually high cancer rate among her late-night colleagues.
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Harder Than Harvard
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Magazine Archives
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September / October 2007
Last year, 22,955 applicants vied for 2,058 places in the Harvard College freshman class - an acceptance rate of about nine percent. But would the fortunate few have gotten into these even more selective institutions?
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The Culture Calendar
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Magazine Archives
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September / October 2007
The arts around the world this fall.
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A Death in New Orleans
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Magazine Archives
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September / October 2007
Young and in love, Paul Gailiunas and Helen Hill moved to New Orleans to live their dreams and make the world a better place. But on one terrifying post-Katrina morning, their dreams turned into nightmares—and now the survivors are struggling to rescue hope from tragedy.
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Harry Lewis Writes for the Core
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Editorial Blogs
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09/05/2007
The Harvard computer scientist and educational critic tries to spark an old but important discussion.
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#1 - Al Gore: Man on a Mission
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Magazine Archives
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September / October 2007
Is Al Gore more important than the President?
02138’s Bom Kim traveled to Los Angeles to ask the former vice president and environmental missionary about the earth’s lost balance, the current inhabitants of the White House, his respect for Michael Moore, and how it feels to be Harvard’s most influential alum. Oh, and one other thing: Is he running for president or what?
