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THE FLABBY POPULACEGreat article by Craig Lambert on "The Way We Eat Now" (May-June, page 50), the best I have read on the subject...
July-August 2004
Features
Caliphate of Terror
This year, a group of international terrorists announced its intention to affect an election with the goal of replacing a government that...
Helen Keller
Totally deaf and blind from the age of 19 months, world famous at seven for having learned to read, write, and communicate through the finger...
Designs for the Dance
When impresario Serge Diaghilev launched his Ballets Russes in Paris in 1909, he injected into the tired corpus of European ballet a massive...
Stem-cell Science
Portraits by Stu Rosner The next time you look in a mirror, reflect on this: the face staring back at you is literally not the same one you...
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Cushioning Hard Memories
The more you love a memory," Vladimir Nabokov once declared, "the stronger and stranger it is." Certainly we never forget the details of our...
Mugged on Park Avenue
The stories of Manhattan's outrageous apartment prices are legendary: residents routinely pay through the nose for a studio roughly the size of...
Upside for Downloads
Last year, pop star Madonna went on the attack in the war over file sharing, the popular but illegal practice of downloading copyrighted music...
The Thwarts of Last Resort
Like fire extinguishers and airline safety cards, lifeboats remind us of a reality we prefer to ignore; on a tropical cruise, we tune out the...
John Harvard's Journal University news
In the Temper of the Times
To those who have seen many of them, this year's Commencement day seemed a sober affair, fit for the gray skies and gray times. The customary...
Honoris Causa
Three women and six men received honorary degrees at Harvard's 353rd Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced them to the Commencement...
Commencement Confetti
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF (MORE BETTER)"Our records of the first Commencement, in 1642, show that all nine students received diplomas," President...
“A Rule-Based System”
Read the 2004 Commencement address by United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan.
Addition by Subtraction
Harvard undergraduates would be much freer than they are now to shape a course of study if the recommendations of the "Report on the...
Scott V. Edwards
Scott V. EdwardsPhotograph by Rose Lincoln / Harvard News Office Hatched in Hawaii, fledged in the Bronx, and sighted above with some of...
Allston Advances
When four faculty task forces finished their reports on Allston this May, the development scenario outlined in an October 2003 letter by...
Sponsored-Research Funds
Sponsored-research funds account for about one-fifth of Harvard's operating revenue — and for 50 to 70 percent of the revenue of the...
Johnson and Friends Arrive en Masse
One of the world's most important private collections of eighteenth-century English literature — with the lexicographer, author, critic...
Aiding Financial Aid
Two recent gifts and a change in graduate-student support, respectively, bolster Harvard's efforts to encourage public service; help students...
La Vida at Harvard
This April, the inaugural issue of La Vida Guide to Harvard highlighted the College's thriving Latino community. In the wake of the popular...
Mr. Inside
There's a spacious aerie called the "penthouse" atop the Littauer Building at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), and it was...
John Harvard Didn't Sleep Here
For three-quarters of a century, the Harvard rooms at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, have hosted graduates of the New England university named for...
Yesterday's News
1919 Indignant alumni write the Bulletin protesting the unsportsmanlike conduct of Harvard spectators at the annual Harvard-Yale baseball game...
Brevia
Vanishing VisasPost-9/11 delays in granting visas for foreign nationals intending to study in the United States have begun to inhibit the flow...
Cole Porter to Coolio
They're dancing on the Steinway piano. And on the parquet, the Persian rugs, and the oak tables. The room is reverberating to a song called...
The Wizard of Backstage
Last November, when the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) produced the French Romantic play Lorenzaccio on the Loeb Drama Center's main...
Home-plate Security
On April 12, 1877, in a baseball game between Harvard students and the Live Oaks (a semipro team from Lynn, Massachusetts), James Alexander...
Gone Missing
On June 18, 1903, on the occasion of Frederick Thayer's twenty-fifth reunion, his teammates presented him with the "first catcher's mask ever...
Spring Sports
RowingThe men's heavyweight crew capped its second consecutive undefeated season by repeating as national champions at the Intercollegiate...
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
Harvard Calendar
THEATER. The American Repertory Theatre presents The Miser, by Molière, at the Loeb Drama Center through July 11. Those musical jugglers...
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
The Battle for Illinois
Editor's note: With a contentious national election approaching, the U.S. Senate race in Illinois between two Harvard Law School graduates...
Longer-lasting Harvardians
In his foreward to the anniversary report of the class of 1954, class secretary John T. Bethell made some upbeat observations about longevity...
Harvard Medalists
Three alumni, each "represent[ing] the best of our broad community" according to the Board of Overseers and the HAA's Alumni Awards Committee...
Election Results
The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and new directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) were announced at the...
Gifts That Keep Giving
"A gift to Harvard is a gift to the world," declared Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, L.H.D. '03, the longtime chairman of the Committee on...
At the Forefront
Frances Pass Addelson and Philip KeenePhotograph by Jane ReedThe oldest graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe present on Commencement day, who led...
Hope-builder
Luke Patrick Winston '03 traveled 7,500 miles — from Las Vegas, New Mexico, to Harvard, and now on to Santiago, Chile — to find his...
