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Halberstam honored with square
In life, David L. Halberstam ’55 cherished his days as a student writer for The Harvard Crimson, a gig that jump-started his legendary career as an investigative journalist whose efforts eventually...
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Harvard men drive on to ‘destiny’
Coach Tommy Amaker says he couldn’t have predicted the success of the first-place Harvard men’s basketball team. On the other hand, he’s not surprised by it either. “We’re building a program based on...
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The promise of journalism
As a New York theater critic, Frank Rich earned the title “the Butcher of Broadway.” And as a political columnist, he has left American politicians only slightly less cowed. But when asked to speak on...
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No quit in Crimson
The season will continue for the Harvard men’s basketball team, despite a heartbreaking loss to Princeton on Saturday (March 12) that cost the squad a spot in the NCAA tournament. The Crimson have...
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The Society of Professional Journalists named The Harvard Crimson the national winner in the editorial writing category as part of its Mark of Excellence competition. This award coincides with the...
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Winning with defense
Huddled beneath the covered section of Harvard Stadium with his wife and twin 10-year-old daughters, Dave Horan managed to stay dry while cheering on the Crimson Friday night. For the National...
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Drive, they said
The Harvard men’s basketball team was 2.8 seconds away from its first NCAA tournament berth in 65 years. Up 62-61 in a playoff with Princeton, the Crimson needed only to defend the Tigers’ last...
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Basketball, with perspective
In a refreshing twist, atypical of many Harvard students, Victoria Lippert doesn’t have a plan for what to do after graduation. “I don’t know,” she shrugs. “I’ve been exploring that a lot lately,...
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Ivy champs look to ‘Big Dance’
No shared glory. No one-game playoff. No consolation trip to the National Invitational Tournament. The Harvard men’s basketball team won the Ivy League championship outright this year — the first time...
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It’s 1946, all over again
The members of the Harvard men’s basketball team held their heads high as they exited the NCAA Men’s Division 1 Basketball Championship on March 15, and with good reason. In their first trip to the...
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The story of the girl with pink sneakers
I did not expect to be overwhelmed in a van’s makeshift waiting room. I was on a reporting assignment for the Harvard Crimson involving the Family Van, a Boston mobile health clinic that provides free...
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The right place, the Wright time
This is one in a series of profiles showcasing some of Harvard’s stellar graduates. Keith Wright calls his decision to come to Harvard “the best in my life.” Crimson basketball fans would agree. The...
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Resonant connection
A recent performance in Harvard’s vaulted Sanders Theatre looked more like a rock concert than a recital of early Renaissance music. Standing in the first two rows, a group of young boys and teens...
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Holistically Crimson
This is part of a series about Harvard’s deep connections with Asia. SHANGHAI — “This experience wasn’t about going to class,” said Shaw Chen of the year he spent at Peking University. Chen, who...
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Recognizing exceptional women
In 2012, when a journalist asked the White House about Israeli authorities withholding SAT exams intended for Palestinian students in the West Bank, it was a question that had been prompted by an...
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Poetic justice, of a sort
For the 223rd Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises the weather was sunny, with a chance of fame. Onetime Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse ’68, who gave the day’s oration, lent that idea some...
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Harvard kicks off football season
The Harvard Crimson kicked off the home season this past weekend with a second win, followed by two Crimson players earning Ivy League awards. Harvard beat Brown, 41-23, and Zach Hodges ’15 received...
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Northern exposure
It all started one night in 2004 over dinner at the Charles Hotel. Professor Michael Ignatieff and his wife, Zsuzsanna, sat down with three mysterious strangers, whom the couple later referred to as...
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One-game playoff with NCAA bid at stake
Collegiate athletics’ oldest rivals will meet at the famed Palestra with an NCAA tournament berth on the line as the Harvard men’s basketball team and Yale square off in a one-game playoff Saturday....
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Community Football Day perfect, Crimson too
The residents of Allston-Brighton and Cambridge little knew that they would see Harvard become the only undefeated team in the Ivy League when they came out for Community Football Day last Saturday....
View ArticleHarvard’s Community Football Day scores big with crowd
Since 1903, Harvard Crimson football fans have cheered for their team in historic Harvard Stadium, but most of them have been students and alumni. For the 700th official game this past Saturday, many...
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Harvard visiting professor E.J. Dionne on the art of persuasion
E.J. Dionne’s early passion for language grew out of the debates and books that filled his Fall River home. His writing grew out of his love for reading. A 1973 graduate of Harvard, where he wrote for...
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The Harvard men’s basketball team gets an off-court education
When Harvard men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker saw his team’s schedule over the semester break and realized they had a day off in Atlanta, he quickly decided to make it count. That’s how, after a...
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African and African American Studies at five decades
In 1968, a black student group placed an advertisement in the Harvard Crimson calling for the College to give black students, faculty, and scholarship more support and greater representation on campus....
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Basketball star Jeremy Lin gets candid
Basketball star Jeremy Lin’s message on Wednesday was a little surprising. “You will always be more than your accomplishments,” he said. Unexpected advice from someone who has already achieved so much...
View ArticleJeromel Dela Rosa Lara ’23 talks about his role model, Maria Ressa
Jeromel Dela Rosa Lara ’23 was thrilled to find out last week that the journalist Maria Ressa, one of his personal heroes, had received the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize along with Russian journalist Dmitry...
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