Letters
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Constitutional revision, voter fraud, hyrax vs. hedgehog
September-October 2012
Features
Architecture in Concert
William Rawn’s designs begin not with the eye, but the ear.
Can America Compete?
A discussion with Harvard Business School faculty members
Reinventing the Classroom
Anatomy of a new course—and a new approach to teaching it
![Ronald Reagan wrote in his presidential diary for September 12, 1988: “Then a briefing for a pleasant interview which took place at 11:30 with Warren Brooks [sic] my favorite Ec. columnist.”](/sites/default/files/styles/mobile_teaser_wide_d7/public/img/article/0812/vitaso12.jpg?itok=bJhQ5m9w "Courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Library")
Vita: Warren Brookes
Brief life of a “pneumatic” journalist: 1929-1991
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Two Steps to Free Will
Robert O. Doyle proposes a two-stage, “Jamesian,” model of free will.
Curbing Clots
Rutin, a substance found in apples, could help prevent heart attacks and stroke.
Cancer-fighting Robots
Shawn Douglas of the Wyss Institute is developing drug-delivering machines that target designated cells.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Work Zone
Summer construction—on the Fogg Art Museum, the Business School’s Tata Hall, Old Quincy, and more—renews the campus.
Allston’s New Agenda
Harvard will build housing and resume construction of a science building, submitting a new Institutional Master Plan by October.
The China Trade
An exhibition from Harvard Business School's historical library collections documents the first wave of U.S. trade with imperial China.
Harvard Portrait: David Jones
David Jones, Ackerman professor of the culture of medicine, works in both history and medicine.
Brevia
Harvard's largest solar installation, edX develops, Drew Faust’s research becomes a TV program, the Gilgamesh sculpture, and more
Designating Dunster
Dunster House will get the first makeover as part of a project to renovate Harvard's Houses. Students will take up temporary residence at the Inn at Harvard.
Yesterday’s News
Headlines from Harvard history
Summer Reflections
The Undergraduate proctors high-schoolers and looks back on her own high-school days—and her discovery of American liberal-arts education.
New Fellows
Cherone Duggan ’14 and Kathryn Reed ’13 are the magazine’s new Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows.
It’s Up—It’s Good!
Placekicker David Mothander explains how to split the uprights.
Placekicking: A Brief History
For many decades, placekickers weren’t specialists
Head Baseball Coach Joe Walsh Dies Suddenly
He coached for the past 17 seasons and won five Ivy League championships.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
The Art of Paper
Laurie Krasny Brown crafts colorful works from an “accessible, flexible, beautiful” material.
Over and Done
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot on life's liberating exits
Fiction in Counterpoint
A novel, Sound, notated like a musical score
Off the Shelf
Interoperability, rebuilding New Orleans, the Brothers Grimm, and other books with Harvard connections
Three for the Mode
For his new CD, Wisteria, jazz pianist Steve Kuhn proves good things come in trios.
America the Politically Unequal
Andrea Louise Campbell reviews The Unheavenly Chorus, by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady.
Chapter and Verse
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
First-Generation Challenges
A Shared Interest Group aims to support undergraduates whose parents didn't attend a four-year college.
“Fully Part of the Harvard Family”
A financial-aid initiative and other College programs help first- generation undergraduates feel at home.
Stay Connected
Meet Harvard Alumni Association president Carl Muller.
HAA Award Winners
Six alumni are recognized for outstanding service to the University.
Hiram Hunn Awards
The College’s Office of Admissions and Financial Aid honors seven alumni.
Toward a Global Strategy for Harvard
A letter from President Drew Faust
Clock Enthusiast
David Bisno ’61 has spearheaded the creation of a mini-museum of horology in the Santa Barbara Courthouse.
Practical Philanthropist
Bob Friedman ’71 looks for ladders to help people climb out of poverty.
“Vermont Strong”
Sue Minter ’83 is helping her state recover from the devastation of Hurricane Irene.
The SIGnboard
Shared Interest Group events in September and October
The Classes
Harvard alumni may sign in to view class notes and obituaries.
