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Basketball The women’s team (7-11, 3-2 Ivy) had a bumpy start against non-Ivy opponents, but took out Yale, Columbia, and Cornell, all by...
A Saudi Prince's Controversial Gift
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdul-aziz Alsaud, reportedly the richest member of the Saudi royal family and head of the investment firm Kingdom...
Darren Higgins
Remember the couple of hot dogs in your fridge that you appear to think are immortal? As the dogs lurk there for week after week, precooked and...
Games of Trust and Betrayal
“People care not only about outcomes, but about how outcomes came to be,” says associate professor of public policy Iris Bohnet of...
Mary Ingraham Bunting
When a group of Radcliffe students in the early 1960s complained to Mary Ingraham Bunting about the Harvard English department’s...
Young Bernstein in Boston
The leaders of a spring seminar and fall exhibit and conference on Leonard Bernstein ’39 seek firsthand information about the musician in...
The Education of a Poker Player
When I entered Harvard as a freshman in 1974, poker was less prominent in popular culture than it is today. There wasn’t much commercial...
by Aaron Brown
Ballots, Please
This spring, alumni vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and for elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board. Ballots...
Cambridge 02138
I believe Erin O’Donnell’s statement (“Twigs Bent Left or Right,” January-February, page 34)that “people are...
Brevia
Cash Conservation Crimson Style The Harvard Financial Aid Initiative aims both to attract applicants and to enroll more students from modest...
Yesterday's News
1931 The Harvard Placement Service appeals for help as it tries to find work for graduating seniors and older alumni who have lost their jobs...
Crimson Cranescape
This panorama, photographed from the Western Avenue Bridge over the Charles River, gives some sense of Harvard’s current, very extensive...