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Class Day Speaker for the Harvard College Class of 2008 Announced
Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben S. Bernanke ’75 will serve as Class Day speaker...
Jeremy R. Knowles, 1935-2008
Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1991 until 2002, died Thursday...
Antibiotics Feed These Bacteria, Instead of Killing Them
It sounds like science fiction, but it's not. A paper published today in the journal Science explains that some bacteria thrive on a diet of antibiotics, instead of dying as previous science predicts they should...
Lessons from an Old Man in a Black Bathing Suit
"as if living to ninety were primarily the result of hard work or prayer..."
Students of Virginity
Sunday's New York Times Magazine had a thought-provoking story on a Harvard student group founded on the principle of sexual abstinence...
Harvard Management Company Names New President
Jane Mendillo will become HMC’s president and chief executive officer, effective July 1. Mendillo has served as chief investment officer of Wellesley College...
Harvard in China: A Blog by Editor John Rosenberg
Harvard Magazine editor John Rosenberg is reporting from China, covering President Drew Faust's trip and other University projects in that country...
Harvard's Hillary Look-alike
Professional actress Heidi Dallin ’85 has been getting lots of work lately, thanks to her marked resemblance to Hillary Clinton...
Vaillancourt Honored as Best on Ice
Sarah Vaillancourt ’09 was awarded the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, designating her the top female hockey player in the country...
As Supreme Court Takes Up Gun Ban, Greenhouse Is Watching
Radcliffe alumna. Linda Greenhouse ’68 has covered the Supreme Court for the Times for nearly 30 years, but recently announced that she is taking a buyout and retiring...
For HBS Professor, Babies and Business Intersect
This week's "Spiritual Life" column in the Boston Globe features the work of Debora L. Spar, the Spangler family professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, and president-designate of Barnard College...
Now That's What You Call the "Reader's Digest" Version
Lizzie Widdicombe ’06 chronicles her attendance at a book party for Not Quite What I Was Planning, a compilation of six-word memoirs...