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ONLY IN AMERICA "Simple Hosts" (January-February, page 48) was most enlightening.Author Patricia Thomas achieved a journalistic tour...
March-April 2003
Features
Of Ants and Earth
Formal retirement hasn't slowed E. O. Wilson down at all. Since assuming emeritus status as Pellegrino University Research Professor in 1997...
Efficient Taxation of Income
In June 2001, President George W. Bush signed the Economic Growth and Tax Relief and Reconciliation Act into law, initiating a 10-year program...
Eleanor Rathbone
Seventy years ago, on April 13, 1933, a debate took place in the House of Commons over how the British government should respond to the new Nazi...
Unveiled
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, A.B. 1886, LL.B. '89, had a passion for beauty. He had financial resources, leisure, and eclectic tastes, and...
What Causes Cancer
J. Michael Bishop, M.D. '62, is a self-described inveterate baseball fan and inadvertent microbiologist. His sports aspirations have been...
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Race, Sex, and Love
Tiger Woods, possibly the world's best-known athlete, resists being called a "black" golfer. He coined the term "Cablinasian" (Caucasian...
Censuring the Census
The 1890 U.S. census asked blacks to identify their status as "mulattoes," "quadroons," or "octoroons." Such...
Best Friend Bests Chimp
A chimpanzee enters a room where food is hidden in one of two opaque containers. A human gazes at the container that hides the food. Reaches...
Testosterone Dips after Vows
Beer-guzzling frat boys, catcalling construction workers, and muscle-bound professional wrestlers who prance like peacocks in the ring are...
Far-out Sagittarian
An artist's rendering of OGLE-TR-56b and its star Illustration courtesy Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Five thousand light...
Jabber and Bael
In simpler times, Southerners ate Krispy Kremes and New Englanders ate Dunkin' Donuts. Texans wore cowboy hats and New Yorkers wore black...
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A "Down Payment" on Financial Aid
The university has created new scholarships, launched a dedicated fundraising drive, and unveiled a low-cost loan program to assist graduate-...
Noel Michele Holbrook
Noel Michele Holbrook Photograph by Stu Rosner Missy Holbrook '83 grew up in a suburb of Washington, D.C., where she somehow...
Outperformance Pays
Superior performance in money management need not be absolutely positive. Modestly negative net returns on investments, like Harvard Management...
Iron and Silk
Half an academic year into his service as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), William C. Kirby uses his first annual letter to set...
Lord Byron on Demand
Harvard University Press's backlist is both one of its greatest blessings on the world of scholars and a strong source of income—but only...
The Watertown Agreement
The fact that Harvard has agreed to pay Watertown $3.8 million annually plus 3 percent compounded over 52 years (see "Watertown-Gown...
Legacy at Law
Reflecting on his 14-year tenure, ending June 30, as dean of Harvard Law School (HLS), Robert C. Clark discerns three distinct periods. In the...
North Precinct Plans
Harvard has chosen architect Craig Hartman of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) to design two new science buildings at the northern end...
Harvard's Hammond
Mason Hammond '25, G '32, LL.D. '94, Pope professor of the Latin language and literature emeritus, died on October 13, 2002, four months short...
Prowlers Discover Harvard Valuables
Emilie Norris and Nina Cohen are the prowlers, officially sanctioned and strictly aboveboard. They range widely throughout Harvard to conduct...
Quantity Time
Four years ago, when my first child was two years old and I was six months pregnant, I left my law career to become a stay-at-home mother...
Brevia
On Diversity As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments this spring on the University of Michigan's race-conscious admissions policies...
Accidental Academics
(Please note that I should not be writing this column: I have a thesis chapter due on Thursday and pages to go before I sleep...) Harvard...
The Way of the Long Strings
To be a virtuoso musician and a college student at the same time is somewhat like forcing two people into one body: something's got to give...
The '03 Scholars
Marshall and Rhodes Scholars, that is. Harvard boasted seven winners, one a double. The Marshall Scholars are seniors Christopher Laumann, a...
A Rush from Olympus
This isn't their first team effort, not by a long shot. "For so many years, they have spent so much time on the same sheet of ice together that...
Winter Sports
Men's Basketball The hoopsters (10-7, 2-2 Ivy) started well and twice dominated Dartmouth, but lost games to Ivy powers Princeton (67-61) and...
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
Harvard Calendar
SPECIAL. Enjoy readings by Jorie Graham, Mary Karr, and Maxine Kumin, and panel discussions involving other poets and scholars at Poetry at...
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Societal Doctor
Can doctors teach the rest of us to follow a piece of advice from Hippocrates—"Help, or at least, do no harm" —when dealing...
HAA News
Your Vote Counts Ballots for Overseer and for elected director of the Harvard Alumni Association will arrive in mid April and must be returned...
Yesterday's News
1928 The first reading period at Harvard College has proven successful in bolstering student achievement. The Bulletin cites an increase in...
