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See a sample newsletter	Skip to primary navigation July-August 2004 Volume 106, Number 6 Jump to Section: Letters, Right Now, The Browser, Harvard Calendar, New England Regional, Features, John Harvard's Journal, The Alumni, The College Pump, Treasure Letters Cambridge 02138 THE FLABBY POPULACEGreat article by Craig Lambert on "The Way We Eat Now" (May-June, page 50), the best I have read on the subject… Right Now Cushioning Hard Memories The more you love a memory,” Vladimir Nabokov once declared, “the stronger and stranger it is.” Certainly we never forget the details of our… Mugged on Park Avenue The stories of Manhattan’s outrageous apartment prices are legendary: residents routinely pay through the nose for a studio roughly the size of… Upside for Downloads Last year, pop star Madonna went on the attack in the war over file sharing, the popular but illegal practice of downloading copyrighted music… The Thwarts of Last Resort Like fire extinguishers and airline safety cards, lifeboats remind us of a reality we prefer to ignore; on a tropical cruise, we tune out the… Back to top The Browser Lives Intertwined For years, side by side with a photograph of my best dog ever, I’ve kept on my office mantelpiece Mathew Brady’s portrait of the 11-year-old… Off the Shelf On the jacket, a detail of an idealized image of a chief (or mwanangana, "lord of the land"), created by an artist in Angola in the… What Do Your Feelings Have to Do with Literature? "How strange it is…that we are so often locked out of ourselves," writes Arnold Weinstein, Ph.D. ’68, in A Scream Goes through the… Engineer of Fictions When Thomas McMahon, McKay professor of applied mechanics and professor of biology, died unexpectedly of heart failure on Valentine’s Day, 1999… Chapter & Verse Winthrop Drake Thies seeks the legal citation for a British Admiralty case "which supported the necessity of the foreign tribunal having… Back to top Harvard Calendar Harvard Calendar THEATER. The American Repertory Theatre presents The Miser, by Molière, at the Loeb Drama Center through July 11. Those musical jugglers… Back to top New England Regional The Long-term-care Puzzle Few people understand it. Nobody likes thinking about it. But at some point, it touches nearly all of us.Demand for long-term care (LTC) &#151… An Overview of Long-term-care Insurance What follows is a summary of information about long-term-care insurance (frequently abbreviated as LTCi). For an inexpensive brochure on buying… This Old (Red) House For most of its 202-year history, the cottage at 98 Winthrop Street has been a private residence. A year ago, Paul Overgaag, owner of the now… Back to top Features Caliphate of Terror This year, a group of international terrorists announced its intention to affect an election with the goal of replacing a government that… Helen Keller Totally deaf and blind from the age of 19 months, world famous at seven for having learned to read, write, and communicate through the finger… Designs for the Dance When impresario Serge Diaghilev launched his Ballets Russes in Paris in 1909, he injected into the tired corpus of European ballet a massive… Stem-cell Science Portraits by Stu Rosner The next time you look in a mirror, reflect on this: the face staring back at you is literally not the same one you… Academic Freedom and Ethical Limits New technologies create controversy. They challenge our thinking, leading to debate and concern. When recombinant DNA was discovered, the city… Debating the Moral Status of the Embryo Should stem-cell scientists be able to destroy even early-stage human embryos in order to advance medicine? That question has been framed in… Back to top John Harvard's Journal In the Temper of the Times To those who have seen many of them, this year’s Commencement day seemed a sober affair, fit for the gray skies and gray times. The customary… Honoris Causa Three women and six men received honorary degrees at Harvard’s 353rd Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced them to the Commencement… Commencement Confetti HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF (MORE BETTER)”Our records of the first Commencement, in 1642, show that all nine students received diplomas,” President… "A Rule-Based System" UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, LL.D. ’04, spoke as the guest of the Harvard Alumni Association at its annual Commencement day meeting… Addition by Subtraction Harvard undergraduates would be much freer than they are now to shape a course of study if the recommendations of the "Report on the… Scott V. Edwards Scott V. EdwardsPhotograph by Rose Lincoln / Harvard News Office Hatched in Hawaii, fledged in the Bronx, and sighted above with some of… Allston Advances When four faculty task forces finished their reports on Allston this May, the development scenario outlined in an October 2003 letter by… Sponsored-Research Funds Sponsored-research funds account for about one-fifth of Harvard’s operating revenue — and for 50 to 70 percent of the revenue of the… Johnson and Friends Arrive en Masse One of the world’s most important private collections of eighteenth-century English literature — with the lexicographer, author, critic… Aiding Financial Aid Two recent gifts and a change in graduate-student support, respectively, bolster Harvard’s efforts to encourage public service; help students… La Vida at Harvard This April, the inaugural issue of La Vida Guide to Harvard highlighted the College’s thriving Latino community. In the wake of the popular… Mr. Inside There’s a spacious aerie called the "penthouse" atop the Littauer Building at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), and it was… John Harvard Didn't Sleep Here For three-quarters of a century, the Harvard rooms at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, have hosted graduates of the New England university named for… Yesterday's News 1919 Indignant alumni write the Bulletin protesting the unsportsmanlike conduct of Harvard spectators at the annual Harvard-Yale baseball game… Brevia Vanishing VisasPost-9/11 delays in granting visas for foreign nationals intending to study in the United States have begun to inhibit the flow… Cole Porter to Coolio They’re dancing on the Steinway piano. And on the parquet, the Persian rugs, and the oak tables. The room is reverberating to a song called… The Wizard of Backstage Last November, when the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) produced the French Romantic play Lorenzaccio on the Loeb Drama Center’s main… Home-plate Security On April 12, 1877, in a baseball game between Harvard students and the Live Oaks (a semipro team from Lynn, Massachusetts), James Alexander… Gone Missing On June 18, 1903, on the occasion of Frederick Thayer’s twenty-fifth reunion, his teammates presented him with the “first catcher’s mask ever… Spring Sports RowingThe men’s heavyweight crew capped its second consecutive undefeated season by repeating as national champions at the Intercollegiate… Back to top The Alumni The Battle for Illinois Editor’s note: With a contentious national election approaching, the U.S. Senate race in Illinois between two Harvard Law School graduates… Longer-lasting Harvardians In his foreward to the anniversary report of the class of 1954, class secretary John T. Bethell made some upbeat observations about longevity… Harvard Medalists Three alumni, each “represent[ing] the best of our broad community” according to the Board of Overseers and the HAA’s Alumni Awards Committee… Election Results The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and new directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) were announced at the… Gifts That Keep Giving “A gift to Harvard is a gift to the world," declared Robert G. Stone Jr. ’45, L.H.D. ’03, the longtime chairman of the Committee on… At the Forefront Frances Pass Addelson and Philip KeenePhotograph by Jane ReedThe oldest graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe present on Commencement day, who led… Hope-builder Luke Patrick Winston ’03 traveled 7,500 miles — from Las Vegas, New Mexico, to Harvard, and now on to Santiago, Chile — to find his… Back to top The College Pump Harvard Almost Human "Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by."Scholars up to the tune of 6,000 and more received degrees at this… Back to top Treasure Immortal Hands The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute possesses this plaster cast of two clasped hands, a woman’s and a man’s. The plaster bears…

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