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Franklin Leonard the Black List Reshapes Hollywood Prospecting for Plants • Commencement • Campaign Cash JULY-AUGUST 2016 • $4.95 Franklin Leonard The Black List reshapes Hollywood Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. 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For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 DeanLeBaron_v6.indd 1 5/20/16 9:53 AM JULY-AUGUST 2016 VOLUME 118, NUMBER 6 FEATURES 37 The Plant Prospectors | by Jonathan Shaw Why, and how, the Arnold Arboretum aims to sample threatened botanical diversity 44 Vita: Nathaniel Bowditch | by Tamara Plakins Thornton Brief life of a mathematician and businessman: 1773-1838 p. 14 46 The Outsiders’ Insider | by Sophia Nguyen Franklin Leonard’s Black List of scripts opens doors in Hollywood 52 Forum: Does Money Matter? | by Idrees Kahloon Determining how floods of super PAC cash influence the presidential election JOHN HARVARD’S JOURNAL 14 Showtime at the 365th Commencement: sunny skies, som- ber talk. Plus academic advances in Allston, class-scheduling complexities, probing politics, Currier House chiefs, inside the endowment, summer-school debut, social-club sanctions and other news, acknowledging slavery, the Undergraduate uncen- tered, and tandem track-and-field stars p. 32 p. 55 DEPARTMENTS 2 Cambridge 02138 | Letters from our readers—and a proposal for conversation about the curriculum 3 The View from Mass Hall 9 Right Now | Social supports for entrepreneurs, teasing out teamwork, evolution’s sex advantage 2 12A Harvard | A calendar of summer events, an animal sanctuary, all-season sauna, early Winslow Homer, and more 55 Montage | What makes ballet brutal, childbirth without guilt, cerebral comics, glass sea creatures, Seamus Heaney’s Aeneid, and more 63 Alumni | A feisty career fisherman, four Harvard Medalists, Commencement elders, elected Overseers and alumni association directors, and more 68 The College Pump | The College gates, barred and not p. 37 76 Treasure | Seat fit for a queen On the cover: Franklin Leonard CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: STU ROSNER; REED HUTCHINSON/LOS ANGELES BALLET; WILLIAM FRIEDMAN/THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM; ERIC HANSON 69 Crimson Classifieds by Jeff Vespa/Getty Images www.harvardmagazine.com Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 LETTERS EDITOR: John S. Rosenberg SENIOR EDITOR: Jean Martin MANAGING EDITOR: Jonathan S. Shaw Cambridge ART DIRECTOR: Jennifer Carling ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Marina Bolotnikova, Final clubs, comparing campuses, reading Greek Sophia Nguyen STAFF WRITER/EDITOR: Lydialyle Gibson MANAGER, DIGITAL MEDIA: Laura Levis DNA DRAWING el jobs. ATMs have permanently removed ASSISTANT EDITOR: Nell Porter Brown Your discussion of using gene drives to teller positions. While unrelated to robotics BERTA GREENWALD LEDECKY combat malaria was very even-handed (“Ed- but similar in effect, movement of manufac- UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWS iting an End to Malaria?” May-June, page turing offshore has permanently (likely) re- Jenny Gathright, Bailey Trela 37); but DNA is, and must be, right-handed moved tens of thousands of working-class DANIEL STEINER UNDERGRADUATE in the twist of its helix. jobs (“Who Owns the Ro- EDITORIAL INTERN: Aidan Langston Alas, on your very clev- bots Rules the World,” by er cover illustration it is Richard B. Freeman, May- EDITORIAL INTERN: Olivia Campbell left-handed, although in June, page 37). The effect of CONTRIBUTING EDITORS another fine picture on all this rests nearly entire- John T. Bethell, John de Cuevas, Dick page 55 you got it right. ly on the tens of millions Friedman, Adam Goodheart, Jim Haber ’65 of people without degrees Elizabeth Gudrais, Jim Harrison, Wayland, Mass. or advanced training. Re- Courtney Humphries, Christopher S. training has not worked Johnson, Adam Kirsch, Colleen Lannon, Editor’s note: Other cor- for these people. There are Christopher Reed, Stu Rosner, Deborah respondents made the simply too many. Smullyan, Mark Steele same point about our Robotics is inevitable. HARVARD MAGAZINE INC. supervision of the cover More working-class job PRESIDENT Margaret H. Marshall, Ed.M. illustration by artist losses will come. The ef- : ’69. DIRECTORS: Peter K. Bol, Jonathan Pete Ryan. Author Jon Shaw amplifies: fect will further increase the wealth gap L.S. Byrnes, D.B.A. ’80, Scott V. Edwards, Since DNA’s structure was not part of my between rich and poor, with dire con- Thomas F. Kelly, Ph.D. ’73, Ann Ma- biology instruction in school, I had to look sequences for the nation. Sharing of the rie Lipinski, NF ’90, Lars Peter Knoth it up. Distinguishing left-handed from right- wealth effects of robotics with the few Madsen, John P. Reardon Jr. ’60, Bryan E. handed DNA is not intuitive even with both workers left will not happen any more Simmons ’83 versions in front of you, and even when you than sharing between management and know DNA is supposed to be right-handed. workers occurs now. I suggest that you BOARD OF INCORPORATORS Maybe that is why this error occurs even add homeless waiters and waitresses beg- This magazine, at first called the Harvard Bulletin, was founded in 1898. Its Board of Incorporators was char- in science journals and textbooks—espe- ging for cash to your depiction. tered in 1924 and remains active in the magazine’s cially on covers. For example, see www. Paul Gaboury, M.B.A. ’80 governance. The membership is as follows: Stephen ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2775190 Acton, Mass. J. Bailey, AMP ’94; Jeffrey S. Behrens ’89, William I. Bennett ’62, M.D. ’69; John T. Bethell ’54; Peter K. Bol; on nucleosomes, which are left-handed (it Fox Butterfield ’61, A.M. ’64; Sewell Chan ’98; Jona- also refers to errors in depicting DNA). An The article by Richard Freeman con- than S. Cohn ’91; Philip M. Cronin ’53, J.D. ’56; John de Cuevas ’52; James F. Dwinell III ’62; Anne Fadiman image with incorrect chirality recently ap- tains a logical flaw that renders its reme- ’74; Benjamin M. Friedman ’66, Ph.D. ’71; Robert H. peared on the cover of Nature Structural and dy ineffectual. He states: “In international Giles, NF ’66; Richard H. Gilman, M.B.A. ’83; Owen Gingerich, Ph.D. ’62; Adam K. Goodheart ’92; Phil- Molecular Biology. (Finding these errors has trade, comparative advantage explains why ip C. Haughey ’57; Brian R. Hecht ’92; Sarah Blaffer become a game for some people.) Chiral- a highly productive country does not ‘steal’ Hrdy ’68, Ph.D. ’75; Ellen Hume ’68; Alex S. Jones, NF ity (handedness) in molecules affects their jobs from a less productive country. Instead, ’82; Bill Kovach, NF ’89; Florence Ladd, BI ’72; Jen- nifer 8 Lee ’99; Randolph C. Lindel ’66; Ann Marie biological activity, among other important both countries benefit by specializing in Lipinski, NF ’90; Scott Malkin ’80, J.D.-M.B.A. ’83; consequences. Some DNA is left-handed; but sectors in which they have a relative ad- Margaret H. Marshall, Ed.M. ’69, Ed ’77, L ’78; Lisa L. Martin, Ph.D. ’90; David McClintick ’62; Winthrop right-handed “B-DNA” is the common form. vantage.” Freeman then claims “comparative L. McCormack ’67; M. Lee Pelton, Ph.D. ’84; John P. advantage” also explains why robots will Reardon Jr. ’60; Christopher Reed; Harriet Ritvo ’68, Ph.D. ’75; Henry Rosovsky, JF ’57, Ph.D. ’59, LL.D. ’98; ROBOTS AND JOBLESSNESS not “steal” jobs from humans. “If a robot is Barbara Rudolph ’77; Robert N. Shapiro ’72, J.D. ’78; Self-checkout at Home Depot and su- twice as efficient as a human at driving a car, Theda Skocpol, Ph.D. ’75; Peter A. Spiers ’76; Scott H. Stossel ’91; Sherry Turkle ’69, Ph.D. ’76; Robert H. permarkets permanently removes entry-lev- for example, (please turn to page 5) Weiss ’54; Jan Ziolkowski. 2 July - August 2016 Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 THE VIEW FROM MASS HALL An Invincible Spirit n January 1916, more than 1,100 Har- sharing their exper- vard students, many motivated by the tise and thinking, possibility of the United States’ en- give their classmates trance into the Great War, joined what insight into an insti- Iwould become one of the country’s first Re- tution that is so im- serve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) pro- portant to our nation.
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