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CLIMATE CHANGEI tried to write a book about changing our climate. When I realized that it had to be called "Avoiding Genocide," I...
January-February 2003
Features
Phenome Fellow
In a Marist monastery in southern Bavaria, 11-year-old Hans Hofmann began his classical education. "I studied Greek, Latin, and...
Paul Cabot
Crack! Paul Cabot pulled his ROTC rifle back from his dorm's open window and surveyed the damage. Students had been holding a dance in the Yard...
Hertzberg of the New Yorker
On a January evening in 1977, at the old New Yorker offices on West 43rd Street, a going-away party was in progress for Hendrik Hertzberg '65, a...
Economic Woman
Women's work? A traveling exhibition offers engaging examples:Elizabeth Murray (1726-1785), a colonial "she-merchant" who ran a...
Simple Hosts
There is no florist in the lobby of Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston. In fact, anyone who attempts to deliver a get-well begonia or a...
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
The Blaxploitation Era
Three of last summer's popular film comediesBarbershop, Undercover Brother, and Austin Powers: Goldmemberrecalled, in one way or...
The Power of Negative Thinking
Doing science is always more fun when your predictions prove true and your experiments shine. Positive results are satisfying, significant, even...
Of Rain and Rivers
It was a dark and stormy night. Rain fell steadily on rooftops, down gutters, along streets and sidewalks. It poured into drains, where it...
Chimpanzees and the Law
It's still legal to buy our closest living relatives as pets," declared Jane Goodall, the renowned primatologist. "You can buy them on...
John Harvard's Journal University news
Tear Down
Ascending a ramp of rubble, a hydraulic excavator tears down the highest walls of what was once Coolidge Hall. Photographs by Jim...
Tighter Times
Harvard is not immune to the vicissitudes of the economy. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2002, the University's operations produced a...
Peak Professorships
The ranks of University Professors—Harvard's supreme academic appointment—have changed significantly with the elevation of two faculty...
College Studies
The undergraduate curriculum review now taking shape promises to range widely. Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean William C. Kirby launched...
Evelynn M. Hammonds
Evelynn M. Hammonds Photograph by Stu Rosner She grew up in Atlanta, got dual undergraduate degrees from Spelman College in physics...
Reconfiguring Radcliffe
The institutional transformation of Radcliffe into an center for advanced study will be followed by physical changes, as the institute reclaims...
University People
Enterprise Editor Now at the helm of Harvard Business Review is Thomas A. Stewart '70, who was appointed editor in October, succeeding Suzanne...
War and Peace at Memorial Church
"Educational benefactors make a vital contribution to world peace," said Eric Anderson, provost of Eton College, England, who delivered the...
The Church as Forum
Memorial Church was on several occasions in the fall term the site of strong talk about the conflicts of the time. On October 2 former New York...
Crimson on the Hill
The Republicans may have swept Capitol Hill in the November elections, but the Democrats remain firmly in control of Harvard's contingent of...
Where Credit is Due
A significant change in Harvard's fundraising policies came into effect December 1. Henceforth, graduates of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
A Reischauer Returns
The newest member of the President and Fellows of Harvard College (as the Corporation, the University's executive governing board, is formally...
Brevia
Robert C. Clark Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard News Office Legal Leader Thanksgiving week, Robert C. Clark, a corporate-law scholar who...
Poetry and Politics
On November 12, two days before poet Tom Paulin was scheduled to deliver the annual Morris Gray Lecture, sponsored by the department of English...
Scoreboard 2.0
"We're never really going to be 'finished' with the website," says John Veneziano, director of sports information, but on-line access...
A-courting They Shall Go
A month before our plans of study came due last May, many of my fellow first-years became frantic. Having to choose our concentrations when we...
A Satisfying Season
A wipeout on the slippery Astroturf of the University of Pennsylvania's Franklin Field dished the football team's hopes of gaining a second...
Seven-Week Itch
Coaches and athletes throughout the Ivy League gnashed their teeth this fall over a new policy that the Ivy presidents put in place last...
Winter Sports
Women's Ice HockeyBy early December, the icewomen (7-1, 4-0 ECAC) were ranked first in the nation. Powered by recent Olympians Jennifer...
Hoops, Eastern European-style
Fittingly, Emina and Haso Peljto had their first date at a basketball game. The Yugoslavian couple married and had two children, both of whom...
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
Harvard Calendar
THEATER. At the Loeb Drama Center, the American Repertory Theatre presents The Children of Herakles, by Euripides, from January 4 to 25, in a...
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
At Home on the Range
Harvard brothers tend to a cattle ranch in Wyoming
A "portion of the People"
When Dale and Theodore Rosengarten sent out the invitations to their son's bar mitzvah in 1993, their northern friends and family members barely...
News from the HAA
Kudos The Harvard Alumni Association's Clubs Committee recognizes publicly those who provide exemplary service to a Harvard club. Now a new...
First Principles, on the Web
In uncertain times, it can be helpful to return to first principles. Harvard scholars do so in all political and social weathers, of course...
Mountain Man
John E.V.C. Moon '52, Ph.D. '68, retired recently, having spent the greater part of his career as an historian of biological and chemical...
Doctors Abroad
Physicians Glen Crawford '80 and Susan Abkowitz Crawford '80 have practiced medicine all over the world. The orthopedic surgeon and the...
Community Puppeteer
As a concentrator in visual and environmental studies, Alex Kahn '88 presented a senior thesis that showed off his talent, but also left room...
Yesterday's News
1928 Massachusetts reports an over-supply of trained teachers. Referring to this "interesting condition of affairs," the editors note...
