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SEGREGATION, NOW AND THENI enjoyed Drew Gilpin Faust's delightful "Living History" (May-June, page 38), about racial segregation in...
July-August 2003
Doubts about Democracy
A vibrant democracy depends upon important foundations: adequate socioeconomic conditions, elite commitment, some consensus within the society...
A Dictator's Crippling Debts
Under Saddam Hussein's rule, Iraq amassed about $100 billion in debt. This estimate is rough, and it will be months before the details about...
At Large on the Blue Frontier
Science is like fishing. Patience, perseverance, and skill are part of it. Luck also plays a large role. But finding the right location often...
Henry Francis du Pont
"I have not wandered very far afield," wrote Henry Francis du Pont, A.B. 1903, in his fiftieth reunion report. With characteristic...
Who Built the Pyramids?
Not slaves. Archaeologist Mark Lehner, digging deeper, discovers a city of privileged workers.
Families on the Edge
Humberto started to pace back and forth across the floor of the cinder-block home, cradling his son in his arms. There had to be a story. In...
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Lady Godiva: The Naked Truth
Staggering beneath the yoke of oppressive taxes, the medieval residents of Coventry, England, pleaded in vain for relief. Ironically...
Integrity Has Its Price
Imagine: A complete stranger promises a brand-new digital camera if you'll send $100. Once the check clears, you're told, the camera will be in...
Introversion Unbound
A century ago, psychoanalysts declared that the human personality was largely fixed by age five. More recently, biologically oriented...
Sidewalk Bulwarks
The 1995 truck bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City hastened a revolution in urban design and planning. Architectural terms...
The Neurobiology of Art
When Monet's Impression Sunrise, a sensuous if sleepy painting of Le Havre's harbor, debuted in 1874, it enraged critics. They abhorred the...
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Multilateral Commencement
One might have anticipated that the volumes of talk from Harvard podiums during Commencement week, so soon after the smoke cleared in Baghdad...
Honoris Causa
Two women and nine men received honorary degrees at Harvard's 352nd Commencement. In the absence of a University marshal, Provost Steven Hyman...
Picture Gallery
Mather House seniors, from left, Samantha Goodwin, of Freeburg, Illinois; Jordan Goss, of Arlington, Texas; Paul Kwak, of Beavercreek...
Commencement Confetti
VITAL STATISTICS The University awarded 6,349 earned degrees, 11 honorary degrees, and 290 certificates at its 352nd Commencement. Diplomas went...
Respecting the Future
I doubt that I was the first farm boy accepted to Harvard University, but when I arrived in Cambridge you certainly could have fooled me. Fresh...
Auden and the Little Things
We must love one another or die. This line appears near the end of W.H. Auden's poem "September First, 1939." Perhaps you've heard it...
On Undergraduate Education
(as prepared for delivery) INTRODUCTION This has been a good year for the University. We continue to make first-rate faculty appointments...
Democracy: Use It or Lose It
Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, A.M. '62, was the recipient of the 2003 Radcliffe Medal and gave an address at the Radcliffe Association annual...
At the HLS Helm
Elena Kagan, J.D. '86, once a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and later an adviser on domestic policy issues to President...
Over 91-Acre Allston Purchase, a Fresh Political Maelstrom
When Harvard purchased land from the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (MTA) in 2000, it was an historic moment: for the first time, the...
On Preventing Sexual Violence
Much more aggressive education, a new office to provide "the first line of support" to students with concerns about sexual violence...
Robert M. Gogan Jr.
Robert M Gogan, Jr. Photograph by Stu Rosner Rob Gogan is Harvard's recycling and waste-management impresario. "It's a dream job,"...
University People
Masters in the House(s) Jay and Cheryl Harris Rose Lincoln / Harvard News Service Dean of Harvard College Harry R. Lewis announced on...
Undergraduate Overseer
The newly merged offices of dean of Harvard College and dean of undergraduate education have been entrusted to Benedict H. Gross '71, Ph.D. '78...
The Price of Parity
The data—or at least some data—are now in on the effects of Harvard's new Wage and Benefits Parity Policy (WBPP) for custodial...
Baker: About Face
Baker Library is empty of its books, staff, and readers. It is doing business elsewhere, at several locations both on and off the Business...
Globalization Defended
Offering a confident defense of globalization, now assailed by many critics, Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers delivered this year's Edwin...
Social Investing
In creating a diverse portfolio for Harvard's $17.5-billion endowment, the University's investment arm, Harvard Management Company (HMC)...
As Disciplines Converge
Where are the frontiers of knowledge? Increasingly, at the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines. One way to trace emerging fields is...
Brevia
Dental Doings Dave Destroche Three decades and more after its 11,000-square-foot “interim” building was created, the Harvard...
What Crimson Means to Me
My first Harvard memory is deciding not to go here. I had never really considered attending, but my high-school principal, a big Harvard...
Golden Girl at Full Power
At the end of every e-mail from Caryn Davies '04 is a quotation from poet Rainer Maria Rilke: "You see, I want a lot./Perhaps I want...
Walking on Water: A Rowing Trifecta
Half a continent apart, on the weekend of May 31, three Harvard crews pulled off a feat unprecedented in the history of college rowing:...
Tennis Rampant
The Harvard men's and women's tennis teams were both undefeated in the Ivy League this spring. The women (19-4, 7-0 Ivy) had the best winning...
Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond
Harvard Calendar
THEATER. The American Repertory Theatre presents the return engagement of George Gershwin Alone, by Hershey Felder, from July 5 to 26, followed...
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Miserable She's Not
She made a high-energy but graceful entrance, nothing too theatrical, sat in a director's chair at a butcherblock coffee table in this...
News from the HAA
Harvard Medalists Three alumni received the Harvard Medal and were publicly honored for their extraordinary service by President Lawrence H...
Alumnae Transition at Radcliffe
June 4 marked what its president, Raine Figueroa '84, M.B.A. '91, said was the last formal annual meeting of the Radcliffe Association (RA)...
Texas Waves Hello
Harvardians journeying to the north side of San Antonio—the "Texas Hill Country"—may need only look skyward for a familiar...
Lies about Harry
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Denison Beach has been hanging around the front steps of...
