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Stirred, Shaken, and Sung
At the end of Pink Martini’s Carnegie Hall debut this past June, a conga line broke out in the audience and bounced its way up and down...
Fighting for Afghanistan
The sound of a bomb detonating breaks the stillness of Kandahar’s morning hours. To Sarah Chayes ’84, in her office in the small...
When Farmers Met Foragers
A question mark has long hovered over human transitions from hunting and gathering to farming: did agriculture spread by communication—in...
Global Gains
Photograph by Justin Ide/Harvard News Office Jorge I. Domínguez Harvard’s engagement with the world widened significantly during...
Retooling Tech Transfer
When physicist Eric Mazur’s research group created a new material called black silicon one day in 1998, he knew right away they were on to...
From Title IX to Riot Grrrls
Today’s American girls and young women may be the daughters of feminism, but their world isn’t always the one envisioned by their...
Chairman of the Bored
Improbable as it may seem, James D. Watson—the co-discoverer (with Francis Crick) of the structure of DNA—has written a Book of...
Imaging Public Health
Images are integral to the way human beings understand the world around them. As a physician and a photographer, Judith R. Peterson ’82...
Aging Gracefully at Home
As board president of Staying Put in New Canaan, Tom Towers, M.B.A. ’64, believes in self-reliance. The Connecticut organization, modeled...
Storybook Ending
Rebounding from a rocky start, the football team defeated its first six Ivy League opponents and scripted a stunning finale by routing a...
Cambridge 02138
I sympathize with the shocked Athenians and disgusted Germans who visited the exhibit of ancient sculptures that had recently been colored, as...
Making a Case against the Courts
How will Americans know that their Supreme Court is truly dedicated to interpreting the Constitution as the Founding Fathers would wish?...