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Harvard president Drew Faust discusses service to one’s country
President Faust and an Iraq war veteran on graduates' opportunities...
Maxim Gorky
Brief life of a great enigma, the Russian author and political propagandist born Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov: 1868-1936...
Anthologizing Yourself
Mary Jo Salter keeps her own (and others') poetry alive...
by Paul Gleason
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections...
Joanna Aizenberg
A bioengineer learns from sponges...
J.K. Rowling, Ben Bernanke and President Faust in 2008
At a time of war and recession, Commencement takes stock of nation, University, and graduates' lives...
Large Successes
Tapas of distinction at Small Plates restaurant and wine bar...
Vintage Brevities
The Harvard Map Collection in Pusey Library has recently become home to more than 10,000 map postcards...
What Stress Reveals
Biologist Susan Lindquist investigates how HSP90 (heat-shock protein 90), a protein chaperone, provides a molecular mechanism that may help explain punctuated equilibrium in evolution...
Harvard Puzzle "Bookmark"
Clever creations of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas '52
Centennial Medalists
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who have made contributions to society that emerged from their graduate study at Harvard.
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