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Communications from our readers
March-April 2001
Unhealthy Hospitals
How academic medical centers got in trouble, why it matters, and what can be done to help sustain their social mission in a competitive healthcare market.
Edward Sheldon
Brief Life of a secret dramaturge: 1886-1946
Harvard Business School's New Take on Teaching Management
The Business School’s new take on teaching management
The Talent for Aging Well
George E. Vaillant's generational research on Harvard men unveils the differences that distinguish the "happy-well" from the "sad-sick" in later life.
Empty Nets
Can marine molecular genetics help form a strategy for restocking the damaged seas? A dispatch from Bali
Justin Kaplan, editor of Bartlett's “Familiar Quotations," reveals his m.o.
Hunting quintessential quotations with the editor of Barlett's
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Secret Errors Kill
Meaningful mistakes, deceptive voices, smoking and mental health, the source of human speed
Bluffing the Baritone
Just as looks can be deceiving, so, too, can sounds mislead.
Inhaling Distress
After 40 years of scientific and news reports on tobacco's hazards, smoking today may be a fundamentally irrational act.
The Source of Human Speed
What is it that makes Michael Johnson, world's fastest human, swifter than a typical man or woman plucked at random from the street?
John Harvard's Journal University news
From Cybercafes to Classrooms
Virtual reality in the classroom
The Graduate School Agenda
Quality of life and academic matters receive equal billing in a four-part program for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
Another Museum Proposed
Harvard has floated the idea that it build an important new museum of natural and cultural history on some yet-to-be-determined site in Allston at some time in the not-too-distant future...
The Politics of Campus Planning
Kathy Spiegelman, once an assistant city manager for Cambridge, has since 1995 been director of Harvard Planning and Real Estate...
Judith Palfrey
On a ward at Children's Hospital, the head of the division of general pediatrics is worrying...
Endowment Encore... and More?
The Harvard Corporation has authorized another large increase in the distribution of funds from the endowment to support...
Not Building by the Book
With 90 Mount Auburn Street, avant-garde Harvard Square may soon be home to one of the architectural "gems"...
Elbow Room
Arts and Sciences dean Jeremy R. Knowles starts his annual letter to faculty colleagues...
Tangible Learning in a Virtual World
Years ago Gerald Lesser, now Bigelow professor of education and developmental psychology emeritus at the Graduate School of Education (GSE), was a key player in the development of the children's television show Sesame Street.
Cataloging Library Needs
Calling for a new library for the sciences and for initiatives by the Harvard College Library...
Classics, Old and New
Harvard celebrated two architectural triumphs this winter: University Hall, one of its oldest buildings, has been sensitively updated...
A College Report Card
Much about the College's appearance -- undergraduate enrollment, the residential Houses -- remains constant. But a sense of underlying...
Harvard to Applicants: Chill!
How often does the admissions staff of an elite university advise prospective applicants that they "are not judged simply by the number of AP or other advanced credits amassed at the end of senior year"...
Brevia
More than 660 sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch landscape prints have been added to the Harvard University Art Museums collection...
The '01 Scholars
Harvard garnered no American Rhodes Scholarships this year, but dodged the null set...
Over There
Geoffrey A. Fowler '00, who served as one of this magazine's Ledecky undergraduate Fellows, has been spending the current academic year in England...
Fong of Ping-Pong
The orange ball, clicking in its relentless, stuttering rhythm, is bigger now...
Impresario of Fun
William J. “Bill” Cleary Jr. ’56, All-American, Olympian, head coach, and athletic director.
Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond
Harvard Calendar
Enjoy the annual City Step dance program, featuring fifth- and sixth- graders...
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
"At the Interface"
On a rainy September morning in 1999, hundreds of Native Americans gathered on the mall near the U.S. Capitol ...
Squash Without Walls
Some say English prisoners invented the game of squash, rapping a ball off the walls of their jail cells...
News from the HAA
Every vote counts... An Insider's Guide... Comings and Goings...
Almost Like Being There
Starting March 8, alumni will have unprecedented on-line access to intellectual life throughout the University...
Yesterday's News
1916 Harvard's baseball team defeats the Boston Red Sox in an exhibition game 1-0...
Hemp on His Agenda
Long a favorite of hippies and hikers, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap...
Miss North Dakota, et al.
Pick a Harvard undergraduate almost at random and you will be astonished by the range of his or her accomplishments...
