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September-October 2001
Features
Origins
Ofer Bar-Yosef argues that cultural and technological revolutions have been more important than biological ones during the past 100, 000 years.
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Purse Strings of the Heart
Odysseus struggled to resist the Sirens. Adam Smith warned of dangerous passions for profusion. And we have all, despite our diets, succumbed to...
The Early Days of the H-bomb
If we build it, we lay the groundwork for acts of mass destruction and violence toward mankind. But if we don't build it, we leave ourselves...
"Hypochondria of the Heart"
In 1688 a Swiss doctor, Johannes Hofer, identified a new medical syndrome, nostalgia: "the sad mood originating from the desire for return...
Shakespeare's "Tenth Muse"?
Illustration by Bartek Malysa Perhaps the second-most-cultivated plant in Elizabethan England, after wheat, was hemp--Cannabis sativa...
John Harvard's Journal University news
July 2, Day 1
Lawrence H. Summers became the University's twenty-seventh president on Sunday, July 1. Next day, photographers visited his office in...
Radcliffe Ramps Up
Things are different at Fay House. As the academic year begins, Drew Gilpin Faust, the Civil War historian who is the first dean of the...
From Playwriting to Physics
The Radcliffe Institute's 2001-2002 fellows include a sculptor, a filmmaker, a painter, and two composers; a poet, a novelist, two playwrights...
"City-building" for an Urban Campus
As Harvard raises new buildings and begins thinking about its future presence on its Allston properties, will it conform to the prevailing...
Don Share
Photograph by Rose Lincoln Across from Don Share's desk hangs a photograph of Robert Lowell '37, Litt.D. '66, the poet Share...
The Law School Looks Ahead
The future of professional education at Harvard promises much closer interaction between professors and students, especially during their...
Harvard Offers Peace Pipe
Butch Thunderhawk, a Hunkpapa Sioux artist, and his colleague Wayne Pruse, both of the United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, North...
Where Pedagogy Is "Interesting"
When he was a graduate student at Harvard, recalls Richard Light, Ph.D. '69, resources for learning how to teach were scarce. As a budding...
Research Roster
Harvard hums with research. In the fiscal year ended June 30, 2000, the University received $429 million in sponsored-research support...
Weighing In on Wages
The committee appointed May 8 by then-president Neil L. Rudenstine to study wages and job opportunities for Harvard's lower-paid workers is...
Putting the Science in Social Science
Can political scientists devise formulas to predict the outbreak of war? Although the notion seems far-fetched, James Alt wants you to say...
Loss
One of the trying rituals faced by a newly arrived freshman at Harvard is that of endless introduction. It is almost impossible not to feel...
Brevia
Money Managers Move For the fourth time since 1998, a group of Harvard Management Company (HMC) investment professionals have decamped, seeking...
2001-2002 Ledecky Fellows
Photograph by Stu Rosner The students who will serve as Harvard Magazine's 2001-2002 Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows--both...
Buttonhook and Aloha
Record-breaking passer Rose, going aerial last fall Photograph courtesy Harvard Sports Information Talk about spectacular entrances: In...
Athlete-in-Chief
Bob Scalise Courtesy Harvard Sports Information In 1978, Harvard won the Ivy League's first women's soccer championship, and that...
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
Harvard Calendar
SPECIAL. The thirty-second annual ice skating exhibition An Evening with Champions, organized by the students at Eliot House, takes place at the...
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Driven to Cure
Stephen B. Howell Photomontage by Bartek Malysa On a breezy San Diego evening, Stephen B. Howell, M.D. '70, dons his white coat and begins...
New Direction
New HAA president Karen Spencer Kelly '80 Photograph by Justin Allardyce Knight Karen Spencer Kelly '80 opened her first speech as...
News from the HAA
Applauded Established in 1990, the Harvard Alumni Association Awards recognize alumni who provide exemplary volunteer service to the University...
A Matter of Place
Eason Cross '47, M.Arch. '51, has an architectural project in mind, although he may not be able to get to it as soon as he would like. He wants...
A Matter of Words
How many Harvard graduates have a job description that includes "quiz-show panelist"? If you guessed "At least one," go on...
A Matter of Style
Harvard has infiltrated such unlikely enclaves as Hollywood and the National Football League; now it is making inroads on Seventh Avenue...
Yesterday's News
1936 Harvard adopts a new parietal rule, stating that "Students living in the Houses will be given permission to entertain ladies in their...
