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The 2014 epidemic was rooted in centuries of exploitation and war, Paul Farmer argues.
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Professor of government Dustin Tingley (bottom right), faculty director of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching and deputy vice provost for advances in learning, introduces HILT conference panelists (clockwise from top left): Sherri Ann Charleston, Anthony Jack, María Luisa Parra, and Clint Smith.
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The 2014 epidemic was rooted in centuries of exploitation and war, Paul Farmer argues.
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At first glance, Hammond’s Gloucester home could be mistaken for a transplanted European castle.
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Gothic surroundings, spiritualism, and science: Hammond Castle Museum’s eclectic appeal
Craigie on Main was remade into Craigie Next Door
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Independent restaurants struggle in the pandemic.
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Educational, financial, political, and values issues challenge Harvard’s leaders—and the University community.
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A sensational performance leads Harvard over Yale.
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January-February 2006
Letters
Undertreating Chronic Pain Kathleen Koman’s article about pain (“The Science of Hurt,” November-December 2005, page 46)...
The College Pump
“Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by.” Benjamin Franklin’s father thought of sending his boy...
Treasure
Hiram S. Hunn ’21 came to Cambridge in 1931 to celebrate his tenth reunion. In Harvard Yard he discovered workmen razing Appleton Chapel...
In this Issue
Illustration by John S. Dykes
During the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure...
His apparent age in this undated image suggests that Williston has posed with the draft manuscript or the notes for his great treatise on contracts.
Photograph courtesy of Art & Visual Materials, Special Collections Department, Harvard Law School Library
When Samuel Williston, A.B. 1882, LL.B.-A.M. ’88, died at the age of 101, Time magazine took notice, describing his enormous influence on...
Illustration by Stuart Bradford
How did Franklin Delano Roosevelt ’04, born in 1882 to a privileged, aristocratic life in New York’s Hudson River Valley, become a...
Images courtesy of the Harvard University Art Museums In Manhattan in 1958, the year he graduated from Princeton, Frank Stella assembled the...
Steve Cappiello, his life changed by “a hunk of plastic,” and student Patrick Codd.
Portrait by Mark Ostow
With portaits by Mark Ostow In a room where somber faces are the norm, Steve Cappiello is beaming. The tall, muscular 36-year-old points to...
Letters
Undertreating Chronic Pain Kathleen Koman’s article about pain (“The Science of Hurt,” November-December 2005, page 46)...
Right Now
Illustration by Tom Mosser
Imagine that the Labor Department releases new statistics that show the U.S. unemployment rate rising from 6.1 to 6.3 percent. One major...
Photograph by Ricki Rosen/Corbis
Humans have a natural propensity to distrust the “other.” The classic social-psychology experiment in which individuals are randomly...
Fast forward a decade and imagine what a drugstore shelf might hold. A pill containing an entire day’s nutrients? A gadget that confers...
Floodwaters engulf a residential neighborhood in New Orleans after the levee holding Lake Pontchartrian broke in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Photograph by the Associated Press
In the immediate wake of Hurricane Katrina, President Bush promised to “do what it takes” to help New Orleans’s residents...
New England Regional
Owners-chefs Mark Gaier and Clark Frasier in the garden
Portrait courtesy of Garrett Scholes
Arrows sits on a wooded country road about half a mile from the coastal town of Ogunquit. Eighty percent of the food served is grown in gardens...
Conquer the winter blues by exploring the assortment of activities happening in and outside of Harvard Square, ranging from love stories...
Eating New England: A Food Lover’s Guide to Eating Locally, cowritten by Juliette Rogers ’94, is really a book of stories about...
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John Harvard's Journal
Swashbuckling siblings: Harvard fencers Emily Cross '08 and her brother, Sam Cross '07, look on as two teammates spar.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
To see her on the fencing strip is to witness an almost terrifying release of aggression. With lightning speed, a blur of lunges, parries, and...
More than a name and face will change at Harvard Management Company (HMC), the investment organization for the University’s endowment...
Marc Shell Photograph by Stu Rosner Marc Shell is Babbitt professor of comparative literature, a professor of English, a MacArthur...
The College curriculum of the future has begun to come into focus, as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this autumn started to discuss...
“Why should all of the creative and liberating ideas for liberal education be left to the small residential liberal arts colleges?&rdquo...
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is in the throes of a major, multipurpose building boom, as shown in these autumn images. The site of...
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A room in the Holyoke Center Arcade has been fitted out to help Harvard planners communicate the University’s aspirations for an Allston...
When she became dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) last July, it was something of a homecoming for Theda Skocpol, Thomas...
President Lawrence H. Summers e-mailed a multi-thousand-word “letter to the community” on November 7, subsequently published as a...
Illustration by Mark Steele
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From 603 full, associate, and assistant professors in 1999, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has grown to 700 as of this January—its...
In November 1945, the International Military Tribunal began its prosecution of Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg, Germany. Nuremberg and...
On a warm November evening, more than a decade after a study committee first envisioned it, the completed Center for Government and...
“When you think about events like Hurricane Katrina, the earthquake in Pakistan and other parts of South Asia, climate change, global...
Although the Harvard-Yenching Institute is housed on Divinity Avenue, at the eastern boundary of the University’s Cambridge campus...
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From the dawn of the twenty-first century until last fall, the football squads of Pennsylvania and Harvard ruled the Ivy League roost. Harvard...
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Viola Canales ’79, J.D. ’89, grew up in a close-knit, highly religious community in the south Texas border town of McAllen, when it...
The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, part of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, is creating a record of...
Walter Seward, LL.B. ’24, turned 109 in October, making him the oldest living—and longest lived—Harvard alumnus known. He was...
Harvard clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual gatherings. Following is a list of University-affiliated speakers appearing at local...
The University’s on-line learning initiative has released one new segment that offers highlights from the student-run “International...
Crimson Compass, a new on-line alumni career network developed by the HAA to replace Professional Connection, is available for free to all...
“Harvard in the Olympics,” an alumni college offered by the HAA and the Harvard Varsity Club, features alumni discussing their...
To walk into the rambling, 1849 Greek Revival farmhouse at Sunday Farm in Middlefield, Massachusetts, is to enter an earlier century. On a cold...
After almost three years of attentive service to alumni in general as Harvard Magazine’s class-notes editor, Lisa Rotondo Hampton...
The College Pump
“Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by.” Benjamin Franklin’s father thought of sending his boy...
Treasure
Hiram S. Hunn ’21 came to Cambridge in 1931 to celebrate his tenth reunion. In Harvard Yard he discovered workmen razing Appleton Chapel...