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STEM-CELL RESEARCH Poor Jack, or is it Jill, pictured sitting atop a needle on the cover of your July-August issue ("Stem-Cell...
September-October 2004
Self-Binding
At the end of World War II, the United States found itself in a situation of unprecedented power. The economy of the former hegemonic state...
Little Boat, Unsalvaged
Thwarts, chines, ribs mud-caked, this one's deadrise bow is liftedas if by gusts, whitecaps' scud and swat no fear with her. Would she ...
Stuart Chase
On a chilly autumn day in 1911, Stuart Chase entered the Boston Public Library and, finding a seat in the economics section, composed a personal...
Wrong!
In June of 1955, Agnes Mongan, then assistant director and curator of drawings at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, bought a drawing by Henri Matisse, A Lady with Flowers and Pomegranates, for $325...
Death by the Barrel
The public-health response to gun casualties: make the weapons less lethal
The Mysterious Mr. Shakespeare
I set out to solve a mystery," says Cogan University Professor Stephen Greenblatt. "The basic facts of Shakespeare's life have been...
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Heaven, Hell, and Profits
The Protestant Ethicyou probably know the gist of it. Sociologist Max Weber's famous treatise on "the spirit of capitalism"...
Megastore Politics
Wal-Mart, with its 3,500 stores across the country (as well as plans to add nearly 10 percent more in 2004), is the most visible part of the...
Extreme Housing
There are more than 20 million refugees in the world, and for many of them, home consists of UN-donated plastic sheeting held up by sticks...
Blackboard Brain Drain
When children return to classrooms this fall, they're less likely than ever to find a very smart teacher standing at the front of the class...
John Harvard's Journal University news
Face-lift
Its stacks, reading rooms, and offices already renovated, climate controlled, and rewired for the twenty-first century, the time had come to...
Educating Undergraduates
In the new academic year, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) continues its review of the entire undergraduate curriculum. Many details...
Emmanuel Akyeampong
Emmanuel Akyeampong Photograph by Jim Harrison When professor of history and of African-American studies Emmanuel Akyeampong...
Compensation Flap Continued
Further news coverage of the compensation of Harvard Management Company's (HMC) highest-performing portfolio managers, who earned up to $35.1...
Yesterday's News
1914 When an alumnus threatens to cut a $10-million bequest to Harvard out of his will unless outspokenly pro-German professor Hugo...
Undergraduate Tuition
During the past 20 years, Harvard's undergraduate bill has risen from $14,000 to $39,880 per academic year (before any offsetting financial...
"Roots" and Race
In June, a New York Times article raised a long-simmering issue: the origins and ancestry of Harvard's black students. The piece described the...
Dispatches from the Front
Interim Iraqi Government minister Nesreen Berwari's phone number, area code 914 (a New Rochelle exchange!), rings in Baghdad, a satellite trick...
University People
University Professors Laurence H. Tribe Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office George M. Whitesides Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard News...
A Gift for Openness
When Sidney Verba, Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the University Library, described the library's fledgling Open Collections...
Russia Case Progresses
In late June, Judge Douglas P. Woodlock of the U.S. District Court in Boston issued a summary judgment clearing Harvard University of three...
Controlling Conflicts of Interest
Following a broad review begun in early 2003, Harvard Medical School (HMS) this May formally reaffirmed and updated its policies governing...
Letter from Phnom Penh
Editor's note: Arianne Cohen '03, a former Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow, spent the last academic year in Cambodia. Now, while...
Brevia
Gender Milestone For the first time, slightly more women than men will enroll in the cohort of students entering Harvard College, making the...
Eyes Opened But Averted
I make decisions on a whim, decisions prompted by sudden changes in interest—and subject to immediate retraction once I've recovered sense...
New Ledecky Fellows
Nathan J. Heller and Amelia E. Lester named Harvard Magazine's Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows
Saturday Afternoon Improv
Though the Harvard football team runs one of the most sophisticated offensive sets in the country, the team also likes to play what they call...
Henley: Grand Run
Cream-covered strawberries, taken with tea on the banks of the Thames. A flute of champagne as crisp as the English afternoon. A tableau fit for...
Hockey's Donato Returns
In July, Ted Donato '91, a former Crimson captain, was named Ziff head coach of men's ice hockey. He succeeds Mark Mazzoleni, who left Harvard...
Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond
Harvard Calendar
THEATER. The American Repertory Theatre presents Marcel Marceau and the Marceau Company in Les Contes Fantastiques (Fantastic Fables), a...
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
A Prescription for Change
On a sweltering summer afternoon, Cheryl L. Dorsey '85, M.D.-M.P.P. '92, is hard at work, cruising briskly down the Bronx River in a homemade...
Harvard@Home: Commencement and Cloning
If you missed Harvard's 353rd Commencement in June—or if you were there and want to relive the experience—be sure to visit...
HAA Leader Seeks Global Outreach
The new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) summarizes the theme of his year-long term in four words: "Participate in...
Hirum Hunn Awards
Six alumni have been selected to receive this year's Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarship Awards, presented by the Harvard College...
Chow-crowd Pleaser
In 2001, just before the Boston Red Sox franchise sold for $700 million, an investor group headed by Joe O'Donnell '67, M.B.A. '71, pulled out...
Farmers' Friend
The author of an authoritative, commodity-by-commodity handbook on sustainable agricultural practices for 12 international staple crops...
A Different Kind of Triathlete
You know that new activity you've wanted to take up? Maybe it's something eclectic, like cooking Thai food from scratch, souping up old cars...
Having Fun with the News
Even after six years and continuing success at the helm of National Public Radio's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me, Peter Sagal...
Doing His Work
Philippe E. Wamba '93 was killed in a car crash in Kenya in September 2002 while he was conducting research for a book on African youth. He was...
Pay the Term Bill in Barrel Hoops
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Roger Thompson of Norwich, England, an emeritus professor of...
