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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 2003 Volume 105, Number 4 Jump to Section: Letters, Right Now, The Browser, Harvard Calendar, Up Next, Features, John Harvard's Journal, The Alumni, The College Pump, Treasure Letters Cambridge 02138 ONLY IN AMERICA "Simple Hosts" (January-February, page 48) was most enlightening.Author Patricia Thomas achieved a journalistic tour… Right Now Race, Sex, and Love Tiger Woods, possibly the world’s best-known athlete, resists being called a “black” golfer. He coined the term “Cablinasian” (Caucasian… Censuring the Census The 1890 U.S. census asked blacks to identify their status as "mulattoes," "quadroons," or "octoroons." Such… Best Friend Bests Chimp A chimpanzee enters a room where food is hidden in one of two opaque containers. A human gazes at the container that hides the food. Reaches… Testosterone Dips after Vows Beer-guzzling frat boys, catcalling construction workers, and muscle-bound professional wrestlers who prance like peacocks in the ring are… Far-out Sagittarian An artist’s rendering of OGLE-TR-56b and its star Illustration courtesy Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Five thousand light… Jabber and Bael In simpler times, Southerners ate Krispy Kremes and New Englanders ate Dunkin’ Donuts. Texans wore cowboy hats and New Yorkers wore black… Back to top The Browser The Founders If you were told that an emeritus professor at Harvard had decided to stitch together several of his recent public lectures and publish them as… Off the Shelf Will Chandler at the helm The Cruise of the Blue Dolphin: A Family’s Adventure at Sea, by Nina Chandler Murray (Lyons Press, $24.95)… Steve Gould's Baseball Blind Spot The favorite baseball player of the late Harvard professor Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)—as readers of a new collection of his essays on… Chapter & Verse Herbert Allard requests a source for “…dry clashed the harness on the barren walls….” He takes harness to mean armor. Peter Roberts… Back to top Harvard Calendar Harvard Calendar SPECIAL. Enjoy readings by Jorie Graham, Mary Karr, and Maxine Kumin, and panel discussions involving other poets and scholars at Poetry at… Back to top Up Next The Road to Romance “I’m at that age where I’m crossing the threshold from high-school-fantasy concepts of romance to the brutal, painful, hopeless world of adult… "I don't want to be stereotyped." TOM RINALDI ’95 Age 29, New York City. Equity research Tom Rinaldi ’95 Photograph by Robert Adam Mayer How do you meet people?… "We tend to over-intellectualize everything." by NICK MALIS ’99 Age 25, Los Angeles. Screenwriter People always say that no one dates in college. Let me clarify. Cool… "It's all shrouded in protective language." WINNIE LI ’00 Age 24, London. Fledgling film producer Winnie Li ’00 Photograph by Stu Rosner How do you meet people? "I don’t… The Originals During a late-night bull session at Winthrop House in 1965, Harvard undergraduates Jeff C. Tarr ’66 and Vaughan Morrill ’66 dreamed up what was… Back to top Features Of Ants and Earth Formal retirement hasn’t slowed E. O. Wilson down at all. Since assuming emeritus status as Pellegrino University Research Professor in 1997… Efficient Taxation of Income In June 2001, President George W. Bush signed the Economic Growth and Tax Relief and Reconciliation Act into law, initiating a 10-year program… Eleanor Rathbone Seventy years ago, on April 13, 1933, a debate took place in the House of Commons over how the British government should respond to the new Nazi… Unveiled Grenville Lindall Winthrop, A.B. 1886, LL.B. ’89, had a passion for beauty. He had financial resources, leisure, and eclectic tastes, and… What Causes Cancer J. Michael Bishop, M.D. ’62, is a self-described inveterate baseball fan and inadvertent microbiologist. His sports aspirations have been… Back to top John Harvard's Journal A "Down Payment" on Financial Aid The university has created new scholarships, launched a dedicated fundraising drive, and unveiled a low-cost loan program to assist graduate-… Noel Michele Holbrook Noel Michele Holbrook Photograph by Stu Rosner Missy Holbrook ’83 grew up in a suburb of Washington, D.C., where she somehow… Outperformance Pays Superior performance in money management need not be absolutely positive. Modestly negative net returns on investments, like Harvard Management… Iron and Silk Half an academic year into his service as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), William C. Kirby uses his first annual letter to set… Lord Byron on Demand Harvard University Press’s backlist is both one of its greatest blessings on the world of scholars and a strong source of income—but only… The Watertown Agreement The fact that Harvard has agreed to pay Watertown $3.8 million annually plus 3 percent compounded over 52 years (see "Watertown-Gown,&quot… Legacy at Law Reflecting on his 14-year tenure, ending June 30, as dean of Harvard Law School (HLS), Robert C. Clark discerns three distinct periods. In the… North Precinct Plans Harvard has chosen architect Craig Hartman of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) to design two new science buildings at the northern end… Harvard's Hammond Mason Hammond ’25, G ’32, LL.D. ’94, Pope professor of the Latin language and literature emeritus, died on October 13, 2002, four months short… Prowlers Discover Harvard Valuables Emilie Norris and Nina Cohen are the prowlers, officially sanctioned and strictly aboveboard. They range widely throughout Harvard to conduct… Quantity Time Four years ago, when my first child was two years old and I was six months pregnant, I left my law career to become a stay-at-home mother… Brevia On Diversity As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments this spring on the University of Michigan’s race-conscious admissions policies… Accidental Academics (Please note that I should not be writing this column: I have a thesis chapter due on Thursday and pages to go before I sleep…) Harvard… The Way of the Long Strings To be a virtuoso musician and a college student at the same time is somewhat like forcing two people into one body: something’s got to give… The '03 Scholars Marshall and Rhodes Scholars, that is. Harvard boasted seven winners, one a double. The Marshall Scholars are seniors Christopher Laumann, a… A Rush from Olympus This isn’t their first team effort, not by a long shot. “For so many years, they have spent so much time on the same sheet of ice together that… Winter Sports Men’s Basketball The hoopsters (10-7, 2-2 Ivy) started well and twice dominated Dartmouth, but lost games to Ivy powers Princeton (67-61) and… Back to top The Alumni Societal Doctor Can doctors teach the rest of us to follow a piece of advice from Hippocrates—"Help, or at least, do no harm" —when dealing… HAA News Your Vote Counts Ballots for Overseer and for elected director of the Harvard Alumni Association will arrive in mid April and must be returned… Yesterday's News 1928 The first reading period at Harvard College has proven successful in bolstering student achievement. The Bulletin cites an increase in… Back to top The College Pump Zvon Song? According to the Moscow Times, the monks of the Danilov Monastery in Moscow are preparing a formal petition to Harvard for the return of the… Back to top Treasure Ladakhi Ladies These figures of women, each about 18 inches tall, hail from Ladakh, a region of Kashmir and one of earth’s highest places. Wearing traditional…

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