Top stories of 2016
In many ways, 2016 was one for the history books. Few years have seen so much political upheaval, cultural shifts, and scientific progress. As New Year’s Eve approaches, the Gazette looks back on some of the year’s most popular and substantial articles. True to form, students and faculty excelled, with five students named Rhodes scholars and Professor Oliver Hart awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. A College fencer represented the U.S. at the Olympic Games in Rio, while three Harvard Divinity School students took a Nimbus 2000 to the top of the iTunes podcast charts with “Harry Potter and the Sacred Text.” Steven Spielberg gave the Class of 2016 villains to vanquish, and Stephen Hawking explained how strange our universe is beyond our tiny blue home. Babar the Elephant stopped by the Houghton Library, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Larry Wilmore tickled our funny bones, and Toni Morrison and Rashida Jones appealed to our...