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JUDGING THE DEFICIT DANGERWhat's good for short-run fiscal policy is bad for long-run fiscal policy ("The Deficit Danger," by Benjamin...
March-April 2004
Features
The Imbalance of Power
For more than 50 years, the transatlantic partnership between the United States and Europe has been the linchpin of this country's foreign...
The True Magic Pill: Why Exercise Outperforms Every Drug for Health and Longevity
From survival of the fittest to staying fit just to survive, scientists probe the benefits of exercise.
Walter Channing
In a career spanning nearly six decades, Walter Channing provided the medical skills and compassionate care women sought as they faced the pain...
A God’s Eye View of Space
Harvard's plans to complete its "North Campus" in Cambridge took an important step forward when the University reached an agreement...
Peacemakers
If there is going to be a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," says Robert H. Mnookin, "the rough outlines of what...
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
The Way of Trout
Strange to say, swimming through rough water may actually be easier than swimming across a calm pond. At least that's true for many kinds of...
Twigs Bent, Trees Go Straight
In a discussion of criminal-justice issues, former U. S. Attorney General Janet Reno once stated that the life trajectory for most criminals was...
The Politics of Disaster
When a natural disaster strikes in the United States, only the president has the power to declare the site a federal disaster area, making it...
Pliable Paradigms
If ever someone understood the challenges of changing people's minds, it was Charles Darwin. After doing his research in the Galápagos...
Kids Turn New Pages
Parents in the 1960s generally expected their children to be passive observers who did as they were told. Today's parents are more likely to...
John Harvard's Journal University news
Baker, Bisected
The reconstruction of Harvard Business School's Baker Library — to incorporate a 100,000-square-foot new "academic center" and...
Rethinking College
The current review of Harvard's undergraduate curriculum has become the widest imaginable inquiry into teaching and learning at the College...
Arts and Sciences' Ambitious Plans
In his annual report, published in early February, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) William C. Kirby outlined three simultaneous...
Michael Ignatieff
Unlike the world, the Kennedy School office of Michael Ignatieff, Ph.D. '76, is immaculately tidy. "It's complete illusion," he...
University People
Jacqueline A. O'Neill Rose Lincoln / Harvard News Office Madam Marshal President Lawrence H. Summers has appointed Jacqueline A...
Agassiz Agreement
Harvard's plans to complete its "North Campus" in Cambridge took an important step forward when the University reached an agreement...
Flame and Ashes
Harvard's plans to complete its "North Campus" in Cambridge took an important step forward when the University reached an agreement...
Allston Budget Billions
Harvard's plans to complete its "North Campus" in Cambridge took an important step forward when the University reached an agreement...
"Extraordinary Bonuses"
Harvard's plans to complete its "North Campus" in Cambridge took an important step forward when the University reached an agreement...
An Icy Amenity
Photograph by Stu Rosner Dean of the Law School Elena Kagan testified that she decided on the spur of a frozen moment in January...
New from Lewis and Clark
Two collections assistants at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology were making an inventory of objects in the Oceania storerooms last...
Yesterday's News
1919 Alice Hamilton is appointed assistant professor of industrial medicine, becoming the first woman to hold a professorial position at the...
International Enrollment by School
The University is an increasingly international community. For the 2002-2003 academic year, according to the Harvard University Fact Book...
Military Recruiting: The Lawsuits
In the wake of new military recruiting practices on campus, sharp differences of opinion continue to fuel exchanges about the right way to...
Brevia
Cellist CelebratedThe tenth annual Harvard Arts Medal will be conferred on internationally acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma '76, D.Mus. '91, during...
The Prankster’s Secret
Thayer. 2 a.m. Six freshmen, clad in muted grays, stocking-caps, and ski-masks, review, for the umpteenth time, their plot. Lock-pick kit?...
The Rhodes Roster
Thayer. 2 a.m. Six freshmen, clad in muted grays, stocking-caps, and ski-masks, review, for the umpteenth time, their plot. Lock-pick kit?...
Maestro of the Mat
Last December, at the Cliff Keen Invitational wrestling tournament in Las Vegas, something unusual happened: Jesse Jantzen '04 lost a bout. In...
Winter Sports in Progress
Ice Hockey The men (8-11-2 overall, 6-8-1 ECAC) continued strong play that often has come up a goal or two short. By midseason, their only Ivy...
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
Harvard Calendar
THEATER. The American Repertory Theatre presents Harold Pinter's black comedy The Birthday Party on March 6 through 27 at the Loeb Drama Center...
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Of Software and Apples
Sure, he's got the traits. He's young (34), bright, ambitious, intense, brimming with ideas. He walks fast, talks faster, and rarely wears a...
Enjoying the Endowment
Harvard benefactors can, for the first time, participate directly in the superior investment returns earned on the University's endowment assets...
Harvard@Home: Four New Programs
Harvard@Home, the University-wide initiative for putting learning on-line, has introduced several new programs. They are: "The Process of...
An Offer She Couldn't Refuse
An unexpected phone call from her son's therapist snapped Claire Scovell LaZebnik '85 out of her "second novel syndrome." Dr. Lynn...
Off the Record
Editor's note: Last October, Leo Beranek, S.D. '40, AMP '65, received the National Medal of Science for engineering from President George W...
