Letters
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Letters from our readers
September-October 2009
Features
The Unlikely Writer
Atul Gawande, surgeon and health-policy scholar, never expected to be a literary voice of medicine.
An Ounce of Prevention
Financial regulation, moral hazard, and the end of “too big to fail”
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
A brief profile of an enterprising French artist
Exposed
The erosion of privacy in the Internet era
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Architecture That Imitates Life
Architects are beginning to employ biomimicry, studying nature as a model for building design.
Facial Pheenoms
“Super-recognizers” have an astonishing ability to identify faces.
The Poor Payoff of Pleasure Postponed
Why a little self-indulgence makes sense.
The Oldest Object
A star more than 13 billion years old
John Harvard's Journal University news
Finding a New Footing
An update on the University's economic situation
President Drew Faust: "Still Harvard"
President Faust on Harvard's finances, intellectual momentum, and future
The Endowment Manager's Perspective
Harvard Management Company president Jane Mendillo offers an update
Extension School Centennial
A new history by its dean, Michael Shinagel, documents the school's emphasis on accessibility and continuing education.
Federico Cortese
Meet the new conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra.
For the Joy of It
A new book relates the history of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra.
Last Chapter
The Harvard University Press display room closes its doors.
The Incident on Ware Street
On the arrest of Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and its aftermath
Yesterday's News
Headlines from Harvard history
The Kirkland House Shooting
Arrests and indictments in a case linked to drugs
Systems Biological and Quantitative
Social scientist Gary King and systems biologist Marc W. Kirschner are named University Professors.
Brevia
Short takes on recent news
Why Harvard Needs to Get Harder
If courses aren't as exciting as extracurriculars, what’s a college for?
Welcome, Fellows
Harvard Magazine’s new Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows
Ice Water and Rockets
Soccer’s Lizzy Nichols has a gift for penalty kicks.
Fall Preview—and Blog
Football preview, and Cleat’s blog
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
Twitters, Titters, and The Onion
Baratunde Thurston ’99 of The Onion combines comedy, politics, and technology.
The Slovenliness of the Intellectual
Socialism as family inconvenience
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Cinéaste’s Orgy
Richard Peña ’75 is program director of the New York Film Festival.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Women in a Woeful World
A review of Half the Sky, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Scaling Up Charity
Smile Train's Brian Mullaney ’81 aims to correct cleft-palate deformities around the world.
A Call for Public Service
HAA president Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland knows what makes people happy.
Aloian Scholars
Two Harvard seniors are honored for improving House life.
Hiram Hunn Awards
Seven alumni are honored for schools and scholarships work.
Cairo Conference
The Harvard Arab Alumni Association meets in Cairo.
Soup Chef
Teresa Chen ’64 promotes healthy soup-making and -eating.
Musical Mentor
Amy Nathan ’67 aims to help kids over musical rough patches with The Young Musician’s Survival Guide.
Unicyclists in a Good Cause
Philip Wharton ’82 and daughter Sophie ’11 pedal 100 miles for Afghan and Pakistani children.
The SIGnboard
Forthcoming Shared Interest Group events
