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BELLUM AMERICANUM Never have I read anything as arrogant as Stephen Peter Rosen's "The Future of War and the American Military"...
July-August 2002
Globalization for Whom?
Globalization has brought little but good news to those with the products, skills, and resources to market worldwide. But does it also work for...
Trafficking in Chance
The dozens of ATM machines lining the entrances to the Mohegan Sun casino don't operate in quite the usual way. If you withdraw $400 in cash...
Owen Wister
One hundred years ago, the Macmillan Company published The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains, a novel about an unnamed Wyoming cattleman. The...
Medicine by Model
It's a troubling area, the economics of saving lives. Take cervical cancer, for example. In the United States we have spent enormous sums for...
Tough Love
Editor's Note: Nicholas Dawidoff '85 has just published The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World, a richly detailed...
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Body Fakes
Our nervous system sends us thousands, if not millions, of buzzing sensations each day. Fortunately, the brain lets us screen important sensory...
NO on a Summer's Eve
One knew, perhaps, that the gas nitric oxide (NO) is a constituent of automobile exhaust and a big player in the formation of smog, and is no...
Designed to Shop
Goetheno doubt inspired by European masterpiecesdescribed architecture as "frozen music." The Wal-Marts and Home Depots of...
Stealthy Attitudes
We like to believe we're fair-minded, democratic, unbigoted. Would it were so. In fact, we readily deceive ourselves about our prejudices...
John Harvard's Journal University news
"Humiditas"
Sodden ones. In Tercentenary Theatre candidates for the degree of doctor of dental medicine await the conferring of their credentials...
Honoris Causa
Three women and nine men received honorary degrees at Harvard's 351st Commencement, a constellation of luminaries larger than in any year since...
Scenes from Commencement
Jim Harrison Seniors are led to Baccalaureate by class marshals (from left) Daniel Droller, of Eliot House and Pelham, New York; first...
Commencement Confetti
Courtesy Kevin A. "KAL" Kallaugher '77 NEWS BLACKOUTS Notwithstanding that Harvard is a place of free and open discussion...
Free Speech: Testing
So often was he grilled by the press in the days before he delivered his controversial address, that Zayed M. Yasin '02 prepared a handout of...
"Of Faith and Citizenship"
I am one of you. But I am also one of "them." What do I mean? When I am told that this is a world at war, a war between the great civilizations...
“The Limits of Logic”
Lessons from Dairy Queen: a memorable student speech by Avery W. Gardiner '97, J.D. '02
"Veritas"
President Lawrence H. Summers took stock of the ever wetter, colder weather as the Commencement afternoon exercises proceeded and decided to...
"Civilization Need Not Die"
At the dinner for honorary-degree recipients the night before Commencement, President Summers characterized Daniel Patrick Moynihan, using one...
"Upon The Occasion of Your Graduation"
Althoughlet us be right out front there is nothing gradual about it. Surely your progress has been digestively slow, Has...
Harvard's Financial Aid Failings
"For those moving from warmer climates, inexpensive winter clothing can be purchased at local second-hand clothing stores, consignment...
Daunting Debts
Education is like a garden, explains Carol Strickland, a sixth-year student at the Graduate School of Education (GSE). "You can't plant a...
Sandra Grindlay
Seen here [this photograph not available on-line] at the Fogg Art Museum with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, LL.D. 1859, is Sandra Grindlay...
Counting the Costs
What would it take to address the financial problems of particularly needy students who want to pursue their graduate or professional education...
An Asia Expert for Arts and Sciences
The brief, intense search for a new dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) concluded May 20, when President Lawrence H. Summers...
In from the Margins
The first radiant spring day formed an auspicious backdrop for President Lawrence H. Summers's first decanal appointment, on April 9. Ellen...
Rethinking 90 Mount Auburn
Harvard plans to erect a new building on Mount Auburn Street beside the Fox Club (foreground). Harvard has tapped Leers Weinzapfel...
Study Abroad, Honors at Home
The faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has made it easier for Harvard College students to study abroad, and more difficult to earn academic...
Honor Roll
Prized Professors From left to right: Stephen Rosen, William Todd III, Jeremy Bloxham, and Marc Hauser Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office...
The Changing Corporation
The President and Fellows of Harvard Collegeas the seven-member, self-perpetuating Corporation, the University's senior governing board...
Adjudicating Sexual-Assault Cases
Stymied in its attempts to resolve certain student peer complaintsmost seriously those alleging sexual assaultthe College's...
University People
From HCF to HBS Under executive director Richard B. Boardman, the Harvard College Fund has become the premier annual giving organization in...
Government's Deficit Spending
A deficit at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) that in October was projected to reach $2.9 million for the academic year 2001-2002 (see...
Brevia
Military Message General Richard B. Myers Photograph by Jon Chase / Harvard News Office "Never before has there been a time when...
Love Nesting 101
For the first two years of my college career, I was single. Though I dated a bit, I found the romantic waters of Harvard Yard extremely cold...
Harvard Girl
For the last two years, Harvard junior Yiting Liu has been at the epicenter of a new phenomenon in her native China: celebrity status for Ivy...
Sailing: Broad Reach
They buy their subway tokens and ride two stops to Kendall, then walk to the Harvard Sailing Center, on the river near MIT. The sailing team...
Spring Sports
Men's Crew The Crimson decisively swept the Harvard-Yale boat race (the varsity winning by 41.3 seconds), to cap a strong season. The men's...
Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond
Harvard Calendar
FILM. Following its recent summer tradition, the Harvard Film Archive offers "movies from A to Z" taken from its 6,000-print collection...
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
A Rebel with Numerous Causes
It was November 1966, and Carl Pope '67, stationed in front of Quincy House, was about to get one of his first tastes of political activism...
After 43 Years
In her early days at the Harvard Alumni Association, Joanne K. Woods not only worked closely with the board of directors, she took care of...
Double Duty
When he stepped down as president of the Harvard Law School Association on Class Day, June 5, ending a two-year term, Robert N. Shapiro '72...
News from the HAA
Election Results The membersof the Board of Overseers have elected Thomas S. Williams Jr. '68 theirnew president. He succeeds Richard E...
Taking the Lead
Marion Coppelman Epstein Photograph by Jim Harrison Although rain washed out the traditional alumni parade, Marion Coppelman Epstein...
Yesterday's News
1937 A 1.2-million-volt x-ray machine has been installed in the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital, a department of the University, to...
Weathering Heights
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." John Harvard Mall may not be on physical heights exactly, but...
