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Summers to Step Down
At the confrontational Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting following the announcement of the forthcoming resignation of Dean William C. Kirby, faculty members criticized...
Harvard in the Olympics
Rarely will you hear a former Olympic and National Hockey League player use the word “fungible” twice within a few minutes, but C.J. Young ’90 did exactly that...
A Report on the Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) convened in University Hall on Tuesday, February 7, its first meeting of the spring term, with discussion of the undergraduate curriculum...
At Long Last, CGIS
On a warm November evening, more than a decade after a study committee first envisioned it, the completed Center for Government and...
Samuel Williston
When Samuel Williston, A.B. 1882, LL.B.-A.M. ’88, died at the age of 101, Time magazine took notice, describing his enormous influence on...
Food, Glorious Food
Eating New England: A Food Lover’s Guide to Eating Locally, cowritten by Juliette Rogers ’94, is really a book of stories about...
Cambridge 02138
Undertreating Chronic Pain Kathleen Koman’s article about pain (“The Science of Hurt,” November-December 2005, page 46)...
Harvard@Home
The University’s on-line learning initiative has released one new segment that offers highlights from the student-run “International...
A Collage of Colleges
“Why should all of the creative and liberating ideas for liberal education be left to the small residential liberal arts colleges?&rdquo...
The (Other) Crew Captain
Knock on the door. Wait. Insert key, turn. Open slightly. “Dorm Crew." No one is home. This is a relief, as always. I locate the...
Life Lessons
With portaits by Mark Ostow In a room where somber faces are the norm, Steve Cappiello is beaming. The tall, muscular 36-year-old points to...