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Cellist CelebratedThe tenth annual Harvard Arts Medal will be conferred on internationally acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma '76, D.Mus. '91, during...
Allston Budget Billions
Harvard's plans to complete its "North Campus" in Cambridge took an important step forward when the University reached an agreement...
Baker, Bisected
The reconstruction of Harvard Business School's Baker Library — to incorporate a 100,000-square-foot new "academic center" and...
The Politics of Disaster
When a natural disaster strikes in the United States, only the president has the power to declare the site a federal disaster area, making it...
The True Magic Pill: Why Exercise Outperforms Every Drug for Health and Longevity
From survival of the fittest to staying fit just to survive, scientists probe the benefits of exercise.
Stamps of the Ivy League
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Isn't it time that the Postal Service honors Brown and...
Worry, a Powerful Driver
In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington, by Robert E. Rubin '60, LL.D. '01, and Jacob Weisberg (Random House, $35)...
Winter Sports in Progress
Ice Hockey The men (8-11-2 overall, 6-8-1 ECAC) continued strong play that often has come up a goal or two short. By midseason, their only Ivy...
Yesterday's News
1919 Alice Hamilton is appointed assistant professor of industrial medicine, becoming the first woman to hold a professorial position at the...
University People
Jacqueline A. O'Neill Rose Lincoln / Harvard News Office Madam Marshal President Lawrence H. Summers has appointed Jacqueline A...
Off the Shelf
St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography, by Philip Freeman, Ph.D. '94 (Simon and Schuster, $24). It's a pious fiction that Patrick drove the snakes...
Peacemakers
Robert H. Mnookin explores a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict