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Find Your Center: Rolling on the River

Even as it hopes to beat rival teams from Yale and MIT at this year’s Head of the Charles Regatta, the larger goal of the Rowing Club at Harvard Griffin GSAS is to make rowing more inclusive and accessible, and to strengthen the University’s graduate student community.

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Overcoming the "Everyday Horror" of Mexico’s Drug War

By studying works of “quotidian horror,” PhD student Andrea Garza explores the ways that stories can enable us to look squarely at violence and take action instead of turning away or falling prey to paralysis.  

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Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo cover photo from Netflix documentary
Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo
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How Tariffs Are Impacting Retail Prices

Price increases, which were moderating before the US government began imposing tariffs, are now climbing. An analysis by Alberto Cavallo, PhD '10, shows how levies are reaching consumers.

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Chart showing that, when factoring slowing price increases before March, the 4% jump on imported goods since then would climb to 5.4%. Prices on domestic goods would rise to 2.6% from 2%.
When factoring slowing price increases before March 2025, the 4% jump on imported goods since then would climb to 5.4%. Prices on domestic goods would rise to 2.6% from 2%.
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Source: "Tracking the Short-Run Price Impact of U.S. Tariffs," HBS Working Paper. • Data from 01/01/24 to 09/08/25.
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