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Editor’s Highlights Sign up to be notified of new issues. See a sample newsletter	Skip to primary navigation March-April 2000 Volume 102, Number 4 Jump to Section: Letters, Harvard Health, Right Now, Lagniappe, The Browser, Harvard Calendar, New England Regional, Features, John Harvard's Journal, The Alumni, The College Pump, Treasure Letters Cambridge 02138 As the panelists in your roundtable discussion “Cities and Suburbs” cogently convey (January-February, page 54), more than a few suburbs now… Harvard Health The Skinny on Weight Calvin Trillin has attributed an astute observation to his father, who said something like, “You can’t gain more weight than that of the food… Back to top Right Now Wild Minds In the summer of 1980, while doing primate research at a tourist spot in Florida, Marc D. Hauser had an unusual encounter. A female spider… Longshots Can Win in the Schoolyard When he was four, Raymond’s family moved from Mexico to the United States. Everyone worked. The four children helped their mother deliver… The Boy's Dilemma The idea that boys like to play with guns while girls prefer dolls is venerable. But in recent years, boys have started playing with real guns… Seeds of Greatness Of all the seed-bearing plants on earth, the angiosperms, or flowering plants, have been the most successful. There are 250,000 of them, as… Back to top Lagniappe Name Game The University Campaign is one for the record books: by far exceeding its $2.1-billion goal, it became the most successful such effort ever… Back to top The Browser Beowulf in the Yard The morning after Beowulf wrenches off Grendel’s arm—thus purging the Danish royal hall of its unwelcome visitor—King… Buy America Buy America John D. Spooner ’59, author of Do You Want to Make Money or Would You Rather Fool Around? (Adams Media… Off the Shelf On the Rez, by Ian Frazier ’73 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25). “This book is about Indians, particularly the Oglala… Chapter & Verse Janice Weiss asks where Benjamin DeMott may have written that literature is “an elegant clockworks that tells no time.” &nbsp… Back to top Harvard Calendar Harvard Calendar SPECIAL. Dance yourself over to the annual CityStep show, featuring Cambridge fifth- and sixth-graders, on April 14 and 15 in Sanders Theatre… Back to top New England Regional The Square, Revisited The more things change, the more they stay the same. That’s the refrain visitors to Harvard Square may be humming this spring as they cruise its… Saltcellar as Symbol A salt can be "an element that gives flavor or zest," but a new local restaurant chooses a different metaphor: "Throughout… Events of Note FILM. This April, African cinema will take center stage at the Harvard Film Archive, beginning with African Film Festival 2000 (on April… Back to top Features The Eugenic Temptation The full-page advertisement in the Harvard Crimson a year ago came as no surprise. The text was straightforward: Intelligent, Athletic Egg… Yo-Yo Ma's Journeys A warm, breezy day in July, and beneficent providence has set for me a sumptuous lunch overlooking God’s own landscape near Tanglewood, on the… In the Streets and in the Studio Ben Shahn liked to tell the story of being introduced to someone as “Shahn the painter” and being asked if he was any relation to “Shahn the… Earl Derr Biggers I am quite sure that I never intended to travel the road of the mystery writer,” wrote Earl Derr Biggers ’07 for his twenty-fifth class reunion… Deep Cravings The bombshell dropped in 1976, when “The Natural History of Chipping” appeared in the American Journal of Psychiatry. In their article, Norman… A Taboo Passion A Taboo Passion: “Addiction is the name we give to a taboo passion,” says Ann Marlowe ’79, G ’80, author of how to stop time: heroin from A to… The Poet of Needle Park The Poet of Needle Park: He is surely the most famous Harvard-educated heroin addict, and one of the most famous addicts anywhere: William… Back to top John Harvard's Journal Crimson Wrestlers Rising The ascent of Harvard’s wrestling program, as some colleges scrap theirs to reach gender equity in their sports offerings, owes much to the… The New Medicine Seeking to make the most of new scientific opportunities in an era of rising research costs and shifting income sources, Harvard Medical School… The Finish Line Harvard’s university campaign, the most ambitious such effort ever in higher education, concluded December 31, five and a half years from its… Expanding the Professoriate Samuel Gompers, a founder and first president of the American Federation of Labor, succinctly summarized its aims as “More!” It is unlikely… Orchid Peeping An exhibition probing pollination strategies opened on Valentine’s Day at the Harvard Museum of Natural History and will run through May 14… Mental Health Services Examined In an effort to provide Harvard students with better mental-health care—a more accessible and tightly coordinated network of services—a… A Magnificent Acquisition Piet Mondrian’s Composition with Blue, Black, Yellow, and Red is now part of the University’s art collections, thanks to a gift from the family… Taking Care of Junior Professors Having identified financial and other pressures on untenured professors, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Jeremy R. Knowles… "Bright Line" at the Business School Harvard Business School has prohibited faculty members from having a “financial interest” or “formal position” in enterprises launched, run, or… Pay for Performance Harvard Management Company’s president, Jack R. Meyer, and its five best-performing portfolio managers earned compensation totaling $41.1… Richard G. Heck Jr. Philosopher Richard Heck earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Duke, studied philosophy at Oxford, and got his Ph.D. at MIT in 1991… HIID, Dismantled For many years, Harvard has moved gradually but consistently toward globalizing its mission and outreach, with new international programs in the… Art Under Wraps The bronze Large Four Piece Reclining Figure by Henry Moore that has reclined on the grass in front of Lamont Library for almost 20 years is now… University People Doctor in the House Harvey V. Fineberg, Harvard’s provost, began a medical leave and underwent surgery December 16 for what was described… Sharing the Wealth For the second year in a row, the President and Fellows of Harvard College have authorized a larger-than-usual increase in the distribution from… Quest for the Best How to help academically distinguished, but economically and socially disadvantaged, high-school students succeed in college and later in life?… The Faculty Weighs In, circa 1899 Whether a new millennium and century have arrived or not—let it pass—Dean Jeremy R. Knowles made the last Faculty of Arts and Sciences… Brevia Quitting Kirkland House Continuing a generational change among leaders of the undergraduate Houses, Kirkland master Donald H. Pﬁster and… "Un original" As is its custom, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting of December 14, 1999, began with memorial minutes commemorating deceased colleagues… Why Not .com What surprises me most about senior year is how much it resembles freshman year—especially in the chronic questions that haunt conversations… Killer Killar Last year, the second most impressive thing about Joey Killar’s season was how much of the time he spent not wrestling. Competing at 165… Athletes of Winter Women’s Hockey At midseason, the defending national champion Crimson stickwomen (13-2-2, 11-2-2 ECAC) retained their number-one ranking… Back to top The Alumni S-e-c-s Talk And now for something completely different. Those readers who turned to this space in the previous issue found, under the headline Sensational… Practice Makes Perfect Get in shape for the national elections by doing your duty as a Harvard citizen first. Ballots listing candidates for Overseer and for elected… Banner Day “Return to Harvard Day,” on Wednesday, April 19, offers alumni of all College classes, and this year’s reunion classes, their spouses, and… Passover Story Few people find a mission while cleaning house, but that is what happened to Saul Touster ’46, J.D. ’48. One day in 1996, as he was… "A Loomful of Hues" Jeanne Heifetz ’81 didn’t become involved with weaving until she was 14, but remembers always being attracted to traditional… Yesterday's News 1920 Thanks to the Endowment Fund campaign, President Lowell approves a new salary scale for faculty members under which full professors will… Back to top The College Pump Sun and Shade When daylight-saving time returns on April 2, not a moment too soon, Harvardians emerging into the sunlight may wish to visit the restored… Back to top Treasure Spherical Riches Harvard’s baseball collection consists of 274 balls in a massive case. The balls commemorate games won by College teams between 1865 and 1885…

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