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Glaeser: Time to Rethink the Mortgage Interest Deduction

Current tax policy encourages taking on debt to buy a bigger house, says Glimp professor of economics Edward L. Glaeser.

Galbraith on Bush, Cheney, Paulson, Greenspan (and Galbraith)

Economist James K. Galbraith ’74 discusses the current crisis, Bush’s legacy, and his famous father.

Diabetes: A Looming Epidemic—and Solutions

Multimedia extras: an animated illustration of the fattening United States; a "virtual wok" to design healthy meals; a body-mass-index calculator; a diabetes risk quiz; audio interviews; and more

A Look at "The Language of Color"

Visit the Harvard Museum of Natural History via video for a tour of its new exhibition, The Language of Color.

Poetic Patriarch

Craig Lambert profiles the poet Richard Wilbur.

by Craig Lambert

Job Notices

Programs that match Harvard College students with jobs and internships

Art as Chattel

James Cuno reviews Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures, by Cynthia Saltzman

Harvard soccer results

Fall semester soccer results to date

In the Black

A summary of the Harvard University Financial Report for fiscal year 2008

What Makes the Human Mind?

Biological anthropologist Marc Hauser explores what he terms “humaniqueness”

Tarun Khanna

Harvard Business School professor Tarun Khanna seeks to integrate Western business models into emerging markets.

Albert Gallatin Browne Jr.

William P. MacKinnon profiles the early war correspondent who covered the Utah War against the Mormon government of Brigham Young.

by William P. MacKinnon