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A Clear Vision
As the new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), Paul J. Finnegan ’75, M.B.A. ’82, says the organization must be...
Off the Shelf
What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat, by Louise Richardson, Ph.D. ’89, executive dean of the Radcliffe...
Footfalls...and Failures
As the summer months trickle through my sweaty fingers, September looms, bringing with it the first of my Lasts. For the last time, I will...
Yesterday’s News
1911 Holworthy Hall, refurbished after 99 years, boasts hot-water heating and “shower baths” for the first time. 1916 More than...
The Pulse of a New Medical Curriculum
When he found out he would spend his third year of medical school based at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, rather than rotating among...
An Education in Ethics
Last January 13, in the amphitheater of Aldrich Hall 107, Henry B. Reiling began taking his students through the quaint details of a real-estate...
Sweeping Change for Science
The University Planning Committee for Science and Engineering released on July 14 a preliminary report outlining a comprehensive and sweeping...
A Branch Office Town, But...
In his gift to Red Sox fans, Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top (Simon & Schuster, $26), Seth Mnookin...
Football: Off-Field Incidents
Head football coach Tim Murphy suspended team captain Matthew C. Thomas ’06 (’07) indefinitely after the Harvard University Police...
Prenatal Competition?
Complications from pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death and disability among women between the ages of 15 and 49, according...
A Living Political Monument
In the years immediately following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy ’40, LL.D. ’56, a group of the president’s...
Gifts and Endowments, 2005
The rich get richer, at least as measured by annual giving to Harvard’s schools, compared to their existing endowments, as shown in...