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THE STADIUM'S CENTENNIALI was initially intrigued by the sidebar "Little Red Flag" in Craig Lambert and John Bethell's "First and...
November-December 2003
Bioterrorism and the University
There can be few higher privileges for the scientific community than to contribute to the security, freedom, and well-being of our nation and of...
Making Directors Accountable
The many corporate scandals of the past two years have highlighted the importance of effective corporate governance. Cases that are by now...
Buckskin Diplomacy
The objects Lewis and Clark acquired in negotiations with Indian nations have much to say.
Bedside Manner
Editor's note: Paul E. Farmer, M.D. '88, Ph.D. '90, is professor of medical anthropology in the department of social medicine. His title and...
Ralph Johnson Bunche
In the fall of 1927, the small group of black students at Harvard learned of the impending arrival of an exceptionally gifted new black graduate...
The Copernicus Quest
Owen Gingerich, Ph.D. '62, takes a seat on his "rocket cart"—a dolly with a steering stick in front, a straight-backed chair...
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Whales Aplenty
The hunters launched in mid August from Iceland and steamed into the North Atlantic. There were three ships, each tracing a different track...
Hypnosis Heals
Long considered by many the stock in trade of charlatans, hypnosis in fact can relieve the anxieties of patients in the midst of difficult...
Doctored Research?
The news, reported in the November 14, 2002, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), sounded startling. C-reactive protein (CRP)...
Victorian Sound, Victorian Silence
With its booming factories, roaring steam engines, and great, groaning machines, the Industrial Revolution made quite a racket. Surrounded by...
John Harvard's Journal University news
Journal Opener
Photograph by Hillel Burger. Courtesy of the Peabody Museum, Copyright © 2003 President and Fellows of Harvard College This altar at the...
Biomedical Momentum
The curtain has begun to lift on Harvard's growing commitment to life sciences, particularly those involving biomedical research. Three events...
A Bioscience Portfolio
Two recent grants to faculties at the far geographic reaches of the University demonstrate the diversity and scale of Harvard's life-sciences...
Timothy Mitchison
Timothy MitchisonPhotograph by Jim Harrison"When I came to America, I found that if you could do something or had something to say, people...
A Scientific Instrument
Harvard Medical School, in an historic expansion rivaling the construction of its original white marble quadrangle a century ago, dedicated its...
Barer-Bones Budget
Greater cost-consciousness will become a part of Harvard's culture in much leaner University budgets for fiscal year 2005, beginning on July 1...
Rebounding Returns
A powerful fourth-quarter rally led by fixed-income portfolios yielded a total return of 12.5 percent on endowment assets for the fiscal year...
Rethinking Education
Harvard's chief pedagogues are going back to class. The Graduate School of Education (GSE) is pursuing changes in its curriculum and internal...
Calendrical Coup?
The curriculum may be remade, plans for Allston refined and implemented, but no monument to administrative accomplishment at Harvard would equal...
Economics and Moral Questions
Last fall, President Lawrence H. Summers spoke at the first Morning Prayers service of the semester at Memorial Church. His controversial...
In Allston Planning, the Silly Season
Expansion of the undergraduate student body, construction of as many as three new undergraduate Houses across the Charles River, and expansion...
Room for the Arts?
Photograph by Jim HarrisonFacing the loss of the Rieman dance center to the Radcliffe Institute in 2005, Harvard College dean Benedict Gross...
Joy of Jades
This spearhead of nephrite jade set in a bronze socket embellished with turquoise, shown actual size, was crafted circa the thirteenth to the...
Changing Guard at Government
Dean of the Kennedy School of Government Joseph S. Nye announced in early September that he intends to step down as dean this coming June. Nye...
Close Contact
The college-counseling suite in my high school, with its brochure-laden atrium, drawers of student files, and closed-door conferences, reminded...
Life in Counterpoint
Few have ever faced the choice that Berenika Zakrzewski '04 had three years ago: Harvard or Juilliard? "It was exasperating," she...
No Answers for O-
The day before I arrived in Kosovo, authorities in Pristina changed the name of the capital city's thoroughfare from Vladimir Lenin Street to...
Death of the Students' Dean
Archie C. Epps IIIJon Chase / Harvard News OfficeArchie C. Epps III, B.D. '61, Harvard College dean of students from 1971 to 1999, died August...
The Sisters McDavitt
Last fall, the Harvard field hockey squad was locked in a scoreless tie with Boston University. Though the teams had similar national rankings...
Unbelievably Good
What's up with Ryan Fitzpatrick? Might this soft-spoken junior from Arizona be the most talented quarterback to play football for Harvard since...
Fall Sports in Brief
Women's Soccer The netwomen (3-3-2, 1-0 Ivy) snapped Penn's 10-game unbeaten streak with a 2-1 home victory over the Quakers to open their Ivy...
Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond
Harvard Calendar
MUSIC. The Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society present a Winter's Evening Holiday Concert at the Pleasant Street Congregational...
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
The Sweetest Thing
In the mid 1980s, Ram Sasisekharan, Ph.D. '92, turned to tennis to ease the pressure of his intensive graduate studies in biophysics. His search...
News from the HAA
Alumni Abroad As classes resumed in Cambridge, alumni on both sides of the Atlantic were gearing up for the "Harvard in Europe"...
Harvard @ Home
Those who missed the Alumni College on "The State of the Global Environment" earlier this year can still experience the event via the...
Yesterday's News
1923 Responding to a New York Times assertion that "information from Harvard, Princeton and Yale" indicates that the Volstead Act...
Preservationist
Every day in Dallas, people gather in Dealey Plaza to look up at the sixth floor of what once was the Texas School Book Depository. Some lay...
Family Moviemakers
Every day in Dallas, people gather in Dealey Plaza to look up at the sixth floor of what once was the Texas School Book Depository. Some lay...
Astor von Leisbusch und Sohn
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by."Phantom may have had the president's ear (see "Phantom...
