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Tough Turkeys

"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Turkeys are menacing innocent students at the Business...

Wartime Legalities

At 6 a.m. in western Baghdad, the thermometer has already punched through 100 degrees across the barren lands around Camp Victory. As Colonel...

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Endowment Manager EarningsHarvard Management Company’s (HMC) annual disclosure of the salary, bonus, and benefit payments to its president...

Running on Wind?

Michael B. McElroy’s research group has launched an extensive program to define the potential of wind power as a source of electricity...

Gains for Graduate Students

Harvard’s new formula for undergraduate financial aid, unveiled on December 10, overshadowed its consequential changes in support for...

Profile of Broadway set designer Derek McLane

Set designer Derek McLane (Harvard ’80) has designed stages for "Grease," "Guys and Dolls," "The Pajama Game," and Pulitzer Prize-winning "I Am My Own Wife," and many other plays.

Trauma and Social Injustice

“There’s actually been no institutional relationship between personal healing and social justice,” says professor of...

Life's Speed Limit

Mutation is the engine of evolution: organisms would not be able to evolve new characteristics if their DNA did not randomly acquire small...

by Courtney Humphries

HAA Clubs Committee Awards

The HAA clubs committee Awards honor individuals who provide exemplary service to a Harvard club or shared interest group (SIG), as well as...

Harvard's Latest Field of Expertise: the Semicolon

The story includes Kurt Vonnegut's musings about the meaning of the semicolon, and quotes an expert from Harvard...

Is McCain a Double-Edged Sword for Democrats?

Writing in Time magazine, Michael Kinsley ’72, J.D. ’78, says Democrats like presidential candidate John McCain too much for their own good.

Harvard's Contribution to Baseball

Harvard may be at the forefront of innovation in nanotechnology and stem cells, but the University can lay claim to a more basic invention as well...