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Growing through OCD
“I am glad I have OCD,” writes Charles M. Barber ’85 in his memoir, Songs from the Black Chair. Barber, who spent a decade as...
Good Times at Frank's
Okay, you can strap on your credit card, go to Grill 23 in Boston, and have placed before you a 24-ounce (yes, 24 ounce) porterhouse steak ($44)...
Return to Harvard Day
On April 19, alumni of all College classes, their spouses, and high school-aged-offspring have an opportunity to visit the College, attend...
Waiting to Inhale
Extreme sports usually mean speed, danger, or spectacular stuntsthings like snowboarding, skateboarding, rock climbing. They may reach...
Winter Sports
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...