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Megastore Politics
Wal-Mart, with its 3,500 stores across the country (as well as plans to add nearly 10 percent more in 2004), is the most visible part of the...
New Ledecky Fellows
Nathan J. Heller and Amelia E. Lester named Harvard Magazine's Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows
University People
University Professors Laurence H. Tribe Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office George M. Whitesides Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard News...
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) continues its review of the entire curric
In the new academic year, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) continues its review of the entire undergraduate curriculum. Many details...
Brief life of public thinker Stuart Chase
On a chilly autumn day in 1911, Stuart Chase entered the Boston Public Library and, finding a seat in the economics section, composed a personal...
Having Fun with the News
Even after six years and continuing success at the helm of National Public Radio's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me, Peter Sagal...
Off the Shelf
Neoconomy: George Bush's Revolutionary Gamble with America's Future, by Daniel Altman '96, Ph.D. '00 (Public Affairs, $26.95). "The...
A Prescription for Change
On a sweltering summer afternoon, Cheryl L. Dorsey '85, M.D.-M.P.P. '92, is hard at work, cruising briskly down the Bronx River in a homemade...
Pay the Term Bill in Barrel Hoops
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Roger Thompson of Norwich, England, an emeritus professor of...
Letter from Phnom Penh
Editor's note: Arianne Cohen '03, a former Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow, spent the last academic year in Cambodia. Now, while...
Undergraduate Tuition
During the past 20 years, Harvard's undergraduate bill has risen from $14,000 to $39,880 per academic year (before any offsetting financial...
Shakespeare, the Age and the Icon
"When you read literary works or see them on the stage, as in the case of Shakespeare," says Stephen Greenblatt, "you are...