March 1, 2002

Yesterday's News

From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine

Published in the March-April 2002 print issue in the Alumni section.

In 2004, a frenzy spread across Harvard Yard in days. Four billion users later, we are only just catching up.

On Open to Debate, the Harvard economist defended free market competition—with meaningful government involvement.

All That’s Unseen charts the Harvard graduate’s uneasy journey from Appalachia to Cambridge and back.

In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.

A roundup of University news from the summer of 2026

The president of Harvard Magazine’s Board of Directors will step down in September.