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Electoral College Reform | Harvard Magazine
Reed Hundt, the former chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission and current chairman of Making Every Vote Count, jokes that he has a unique boast. He went to high school and law school with the only two people alive today who won the popular vote for U.S. president, but didn't end up getting the job: Al Gore and Hillary Clinton. The reason? The Electoral College, the idiosyncratic presidential election process enshrined in Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution.
Football 2019: Harvard 31, Holy Cross 21
In this football era of offensive pyrotechnics, it is exceedingly rare that a winning team’s top highlights are a punt and a bunch of sacks. But that was the case on Saturday when Harvard beat Holy Cross 31-21. Sure, the Crimson had some moments on offense, including a 68-yard scoring pass from junior quarterback Jake Smith to senior wideout Cody Chrest.
Athletics Director Robert L. Scalise will Retire in June
Nichols Family director of athletics Robert L. Scalise will retire at the end of this academic year, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Claudine Gay wrote in a message to the FAS community today.
November-December 2019
Sarah Richardson Photograph by Stu Rosner Historian and philosopher Sarah Richardson interrogates the science of sex and gender. Click on arrow at right to see full image At a gathering, circa 1918, of leaders of the Liberty League, Trotter sits in the first row (fifth from right).
Boston Jazz: traditional trios to experimental student performers
A look at the live music scene, from traditional trios to experimental student performers It’s a Friday night at The Mad Monkfish in Cambridge’s Central Square and Yoko Miwa and her trio are performing their weekly set. The lights are dim and the Asian-fusion dishes are plated with style. For many, it’s date night, and although it costs $10 to sit in the Jazz Baroness Room—where the live performances take place—not everyone is completely tuned in.
Fatimah Tuggar at the Davis Museum
“Fatimah Tuggar: Home’s Horizons,” at Wellesley College’s Davis Museum through December 15, offers 26 large-scale works by the Nigerian-born, Kansas-based conceptual artist.
Images from the Ballets Russes
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Where Teachers Thrive, Students Do
Beginning in 2009, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded a $575-million effort to hire and retain “effective” teachers at large, urban, public-school districts around the country. The initiative sought to “reward and retain effective teachers while dismissing ineffective ones,” writes Murphy research professor of education Susan Moore Johnson in her new book, Where Teachers Thrive: Organizing Schools for Success (Harvard Education Press).
What Ails Modern Liberalism?
A central tenet of modern liberal political philosophy is that individuals can be governed only by consent. But both the nature of this consent and the conditions under which it may be obtained have been debated for centuries. In his new book, The Theology of Liberalism (Harvard University Press), Beren professor of government Eric M. Nelson enters that debate, positing that liberalism took a “fateful wrong turn” in the 1970s.
Profile of comedian-magician Harrison Greenbaum
Harrison Greenbaum was five when his father pulled out a deck of cards and told him to pick one. Greenbaum did, and then watched his dad riffle the rest of the deck beside his own ear, saying the cards would tell him which one his son had chosen. With a flourish, his father named the card. Greenbaum doesn’t remember what it was, just that his father got it right. “But he wouldn’t tell me how he did it,” says Greenbaum ’08, now a comedian and magician. And that’s when the fixation took root.
Ali Sethi finds his voice in classical Pakistani music
“The drums are calling out your name,” Ali Sethi ’06 exhorted the gyrating audience in Sanders Theatre, as he and his bandmates wound toward the climax of the night’s final number, a song with roots stretching back to the medieval period in what is now Pakistan. Some listeners were already on their feet, and a handful of students were dancing on stage. Behind Sethi, the tabla player’s fingers flew across the drums, pounding out a rhythm that was intricate, ecstatic, irresistible.
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