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...navigated the economy through the stock-market crash of 1987, two recessions, a global financial crisis in 1998 and the burst Internet bubble in 2000. Assuming (as most do) that the Senate will confirm him for the most powerful economic post in the world, the era of Bernankenomics will begin Feb. 1, under gathering storm clouds. U.S. deficits are at all-time highs, the housing market may be in a bubble of Greenspan's making, and we have the first real whiffs of inflation in years. How will Bernanke steer the ship? For a clue, here are five ways that...
...mention it anymore without a snicker on your face. I am talking, of course, about VES—Visual and Environmental Studies—also known as “art.”I can feel the crimson tides of fury rising as some of my readers begin sharpening their swords and paintbrushes, raising their easels as shields, crossing my name off the Signet’s punch book, and preparing to storm the Crimson offices or my room to defend their concentration to the death. But hear me out. It’s not that I think that...
With the growing number of pudge-fighting resources on campus, perhaps this year’s freshman class will begin to reverse the trend of freshman weight gain. This year, Associate Professor of Epidemiology Karen B. Michels’ new freshman seminar, “You Are What You Eat,” received 85 applications, and this high number shows that students are increasingly concerned about leading healthy lifestyle. The course itself provides an overview about nutrition, including what encompasses a healthy diet, why obesity exists among children, and how genetically engineered foods effect people worldwide. It also questions...
...official start date for alpine skiing practices at colleges around the country approached, the Harvard team was as excited to begin as any other. But with one catch—the Crimson didn’t, and still doesn’t, have a coach. Since the Aug. 30 departure of former head coach Justin Rouleau for Massachusetts, his alma mater, Harvard’s alpine skiers have been without direction. So just how have the skiers managed in the absence of a particular leader? “If anything, we’ve had a problem with over-attendance...
...poem begins with someone discussing how to make cocaine in a bathtub and ends with Shakespeare. In “The Life of a Hunter,” her first poetry collection, M. Michelle Robinson ’01 juxtaposes detective novel slang and modern art, literary references and questions inspired by computer science. Robinson, also a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, is now working towards her Ph.D. in American studies at Boston University. But many of the poems in her book were written in the Harvard creative writing classes Robinson took as a graduate and undergraduate. Boylston Professor...