Letters
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Letters on American competitiveness, free will, climate change, and more
Letters (expanded)
Additional November-December issue letters to the editor
November-December 2012
Features
Reclaiming Childhood
Theresa Betancourt studies the world’s most neglected and traumatized youths.
Labor, Interrupted
The rise in the use of C-sections
Writers and Artists at Harvard
Helen Vendler on how to welcome and nurture the poets and painters of the future
Vita: Alexandre Dumas
Brief life of the soldier who inspired The Count of Monte Cristo: 1762-1806
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
An Arctic Mercury Meltdown
Arctic mercury pollution flows from rivers, not the atmosphere.
Soda and Violence
A Harvard School of Public Health study links soda to teen violence.
Mapping Cultural Change
The General Social Survey asks Americans about issues from race to free speech, confirming some trends and contradicting popular reports of others.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Studying the Stele
Preserving an historic Chinese monument, long neglected
Investigating Academic Misconduct
The College investigates more than 100 students in an exam-cheating case—and explores broader teaching and learning concerns
Harvard Portrait: Meg Rithmire
Young Chinese scholar at Harvard Business School
The Corporation, Complete
Harvard's senior governing board completes its expansion to 13 members, electing Jessica Tuchman Mathews '67 and Theodore V. Wells Jr., J.D.-M.B.A. '76
The Endowment Eases
In a year of flat investment returns, the endowment declines as distributions support Harvard University operations
Classroom in the Cloud
Harvard begins massive online courses through its edX venture with MIT and Berkeley, aiming to improve education on and beyond campus
Revitalizing Tozzer
Consolidating the anthropology department by raising the roof and renovating the library
A Victory—and a Campaign
In the dean's annual report for 2012, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences achieves a budget goal—and sketches its ambitions
Yesterday's News
Headlines from Harvard history
Unsettled Arrivals
The Undergraduate ponders her hometown, Harvard, and a village in Tanzania.
Brevia
Harvard news: Graduate School dean Xiao-Li Meng, Marc Hauser, University Professor Eric Maskin, and more
Powering Through
Bite down. Grind it out. And score profusely.
Dunking from Olympian Heights
Basketball’s Temi Fagbenle—from London to Lavietes
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
The Queen of Versailles
A documentary film turns a lens on the “1 percenters.”
Bluffer-in-Chief
In Evan Thomas's new biography, President Eisenhower emerges as a canny nuclear strategist.
Arts Imbalance
Peter Agoos ’75 brightened Boston’s public art scene this summer.
Off the Shelf
Recent books by John Updike, Marjorie Garber, George Vaillant, Thomas McGraw, and others with Harvard connections
Vegan Hedonism
Plant-based pleasure with spirit and sizzle
“Absolutely Beautiful”
The geometric works of sculptor Morton C. Bradley
Chapter and Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
“The Busiest Man in Poker”
Bernard Lee calls, raises, deals, and explains the booming card game.
Slow Dancing
A letter from President Drew Faust
Aloian Scholars
Aloian Scholars improve living communities at Harvard
Press Women
Ellen Faran ’73 and Gita Manaktala ’87 advance knowledge through publishing.
The SIGnboard
Shared Interest Group events in November and December
The Classes
Harvard alumni may sign in to view class notes and obituaries.
