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Bob Friedman (third in line) with SEED saver Jemel Jones, his mother, Patricia Jones, and Andrea Pardon, SEED program manager at Jemel’s school

Profile of Bob Friedman, founder of the Corporation for Enterprise Development

Bob Friedman ’71 looks for ladders to help people climb out of poverty.

by Ben Beach

Carl Muller

New Harvard Alumni Association president Carl Muller

Meet Harvard Alumni Association president Carl Muller.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Kathryn Reed and Cherone Duggan

Cherone Duggan and Kathryn Reed are the new Berta Greenwald Ledecky Fellows

Cherone Duggan ’14 and Kathryn Reed ’13 are the magazine’s new Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows.

Thomas A. Kochan

Q&A with Thomas A. Kochan

“All the other things we used to think about as a social contract…” Thomas A. Kochan, Bunker professor of management, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and co-director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research

A still from Michelangelo Antonioni&rsquo;s <i>La Notte,</i> to be screened at the Harvard Film Archive

Harvard Happenings in September and October

Early fall events at and around Harvard

Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in Lenox, Massachusetts. The hall opened in 1994. With the &ldquo;barn door&rdquo; open, picnickers enjoy a concert.

Architect William Rawn, who designs buildings for the public realm, is profiled

William Rawn’s designs begin not with the eye, but the ear.

by Craig Lambert

The Murphy High School Marching Band before a game in Mobile, Alabama, captured in <i>Why We Are Here</i>

Recent books by John Palfrey, E.O. Wilson, George Church, and others

Interoperability, rebuilding New Orleans, the Brothers Grimm, and other books with Harvard connections

Illustration by Jon Krause

Philosopher and scientist Robert O. Doyle has a new model of free will

Robert O. Doyle proposes a two-stage, “Jamesian,” model of free will.

by Craig Lambert

This view of the Fogg Art Museum, taken in mid summer, shows the new structure being inserted in the original Quincy Street façade.

Summer Harvard construction: Fogg Art Museum, Tata Hall, Quincy House

Summer construction—on the Fogg Art Museum, the Business School’s Tata Hall, Old Quincy, and more—renews the campus.

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Ronald Reagan wrote in his presidential diary for September 12, 1988: &ldquo;Then a briefing for a pleasant interview which took place at 11:30 with Warren Brooks [sic] my favorite Ec. columnist.&rdquo;

Warren Brookes, "pneumatic" journalist, by Charles G. Kels

Brief life of a “pneumatic” journalist: 1929-1991

by Charles G. Kels

West Bridge has an industrial-cum-farmhouse appeal.

West Bridge in Kendall Square: restaurant review

West Bridge’s French-New England fare is fun.

by Nell Porter-Brown