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Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Frances Pass Addelson

The Senior Celebrants of 2009

Harvard’s most venerable alumni

Brain images show the differences in activity patterns between the two groups of subjects that professor of psychology Jill Hooley examined. The brains of recovered depressed subjects (left) had more active amygdalae while listening to criticism than did the brains of subjects who had never been depressed. The brains of the latter showed more activation in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (center) and the anterior cingulate cortex (right) compared to brains of subjects with a history of depression.

How Depression Lingers

After depression patients recover, their brains still process criticism differently.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Yesterday's News

Headlines from Harvard history

David Malan

David J. Malan

Expert multitasker David Malan introduces students to computer science.

Request a spot on Stellina’s Italian-style back terrace.

Al Fresco Dining

Warm-weather oases in and around Harvard Square

by Nell Porter-Brown , Elizabeth Gudrais

Michael McCormick

Sexual apartheid in medieval England

Cutting-edge science helps historians push further and more fully into the past.

by Jonathan Shaw

2009-2010 Cambridge Scholars

Four new graduates are bound for the other Cambridge.

A blinding sandstorm is part of <em>Journey to Mecca.</em>

The Hajj, Screened Large

"Journey to Mecca," co-produced by Taran Davies ’93, is a new IMAX film about the Hajj.

by Craig Lambert

Photograph by Jim Harrison

2009 Class Marshals

The elected leaders of the College class of 2009

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Looming Layoffs

With the endowment down sharply and employee compensation accounting for nearly half of University expenses recently, the administration plans to trim staff jobs.