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A Play for the Ages Propels Crimson Football to Victory Dick Friedman on Harvard’s 20-17 win over Colgate
Three Harvard Alumni and a Former Postdoc Named MacArthur Fellows A labor economist, an organic chemist, a physicist, and a memory researcher were honored with 2026 “genius” grants.
Crimson Football: Harvard 14, Brown 10 Xaden Benson’s “helmet trick” was the decisive factor in the Ivy opener.
I Used to Think AI Could Make Me a Better Writer A former Harvard College writing tutor changes her mind on LLMs.
How Facebook Escaped Harvard In 2004, a frenzy spread across Harvard Yard in days. Four billion users later, we are only just catching up.
How Adam Ehrlich Sachs Writes Absurd and Beautiful Fiction The Gretel and the Great War author on how the Lampoon derailed his science career—and set him on a literary path.