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VisitVisit the the website website toto be inspired by the possibilities: advancedleadership.harvard.eduadvancedleadership.harvard.edu oror email email the the program fellowship manager: director: [email protected] [email protected] harvard university advanced leadership initiative 1301_AdvancedLeadership_Harvard.indd 1 11/26/12 9:45 AM Untitled-1 1 11/30/11 2:27 PM JULY-AUGUST 2013 VOLUME 115, NUMBER 6 FEATURES 24 Forum: Anatomy of the Euro Crisis OSNER R TU The political and economic origins of the continent’s gridlock—and S page 40 continuing problems by Peter A. Hall DEPARTMENTS 28 Vita: Albert Bigelow 4 7 Ware Street Brief life of an ardent pacifist: 1906-1993 6 The View from Mass Hall by Steven Slosberg 7 Cambridge 02138 Communications from our readers 30 The Art of Subtraction 9 Right Now Master woodcarver David Esterly Mapping neural circuits, how memory predicts social behavior, innovative finance revives a nearly lost art for social solutions by Craig Lambert 12A New England Regional Section Summer seasonal events, historic house Buffering the Sun museums, and post-Puritan cuisine 36 David Keith explores ways to counteract COURTESY OF ESTERLY DAVID 13 Montage page 30 global warming, while taking scientific A literary garden, Harvard Square in expat fiction, on critical reading, natural and policy concerns into account landscaping in urban China, learn- by Erin O’Donnell ing to navigate without a smartphone, screenwriting how-to, Jewish humor analyzed, and more 40 John Harvard’s Journal 63 The Alumni Sober sentiments and a celebrity hug-fest at the Oceans advocate, fiftieth-reunion time 362nd Commencement. Plus the Law School’s capsule, Harvard Medalists, distin- guished Ph.D.s, oldest grads, and more upper-level oasis, conferring about learning, from Russian studies to union ranks, online education 68 The College Pump A Theory of Justice: the musical- in overdrive, faculty questions about governance, comedy version—and the class of ’44 e-mail inquiries, Teddy Roosevelt: the archives, 76 Treasure reengineering drug discovery, M.B.A. “girls,” ORBIS Time, by the beach C interim Education School dean, the Undergradu- EMOTIX/ 69 Crimson Classifieds D ate’s Harvard mix tape, phasing out the primate On the cover: Photograph by Jim Harrison center, and the crimson Cricket Club © POPICINIO/ page 24 www.harvardmagazine.com 7 WARE STREET EDITOR: John S. Rosenberg PUBLISHER: Irina Kuksin SENIOR EDITOR: Jean Martin DIRECTOR OF CIRCULATION AND Bench FUNDRAISING Felecia Carter MANAGING EDITOR: Jonathan S. Shaw : DONOR RELATIONS AND STEWARDSHIP DEPUTY EDITOR: Craig Lambert MANAGER: Allison Kern ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Peter Vigneron Strength DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING: ASSISTANT EDITOR-ONLINE: Laura Levis Robert D. Fitta ASSISTANT EDITOR: Nell Porter Brown NEW ENGLAND ADVERTISING MANAGER: hree deanships concluded this ART DIRECTOR: Jennifer Carling Abby Shepard academic year: Kathleen McCart- CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING MANAGER: ney departs the Graduate School BERTA GREENWALD LEDECKY Gretchen Bostrom UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWS of Education to become president DESIGNER AND INTEGRATED MARKETING T Cherone Duggan, Kathryn C. Reed of Smith College; Michael Shinagel retires manager: Jennifer Beaumont as dean of continuing education and Uni- versity extension; and Harvard College dean EDITORIAL INTERN: Kristen Strezo PRODUCTION AND NEW MEDIA Evelynn M. Hammonds announced on May MANAGER: Mark Felton 28 that she would step down. Each opening CONTRIBUTING EDITORS ASSOCIATE WEB DEVELOPER: precipitated a long search for a successor; John T. Bethell, John de Cuevas, Jeffrey Hudecek two (the education school and the College) Adam Goodheart, Jim Harrison, GIFT PROCESSOR AND OFFICE MANAGER: saw the appointment of an interim dean. Courtney Humphries, Christopher S. Robert Bonotto There are opportunities to plan for these Johnson, Adam Kirsch, Colleen Lannon, transitions by training faculty candidates Christopher Reed, Stu Rosner, IVY LEAGUE MAGAZINE NETWORK for future promotion. As interim president Deborah Smullyan, Mark Steele DIRECTOR, SALES AND MARKETING: in the 2006-2007 academic year (service that Ross Garnick, www.ivymags.com could not have been planned for), Derek Bok HARVARD MAGAZINE INC. recalled that he paid special attention to this EDITORIAL AND BUSINESS OFFICE PRESIDENT: Henry Rosovsky, JF ’57, 7 Ware Street problem (see “Developing Deans, Calendar Ph.D. ’59, LL.D. ’98. 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Those appointed to such facebook.com/harvardmagazine positions are often thrown into the job with no preparation or support—as he was (Bok BOARD OF INCORPORATORS Harvard Magazine (ISSN 0095-2427) is published bi- monthly by Harvard Magazine Inc., a nonprofit cor- became Harvard Law School dean at age This magazine, at first called the Harvard Bulletin, was poration, 7 Ware Street, Cambridge, Mass. 02138-4037, 37). To buttress “bench strength,” interim founded in 1898. Its Board of Incorporators was char- phone 617-495-5746; fax 617-495-0324. The magazine is tered in 1924 and remains active in the magazine’s supported by reader contributions and subscriptions, president Bok asked McCartney, the Rad- governance. The membership