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Bacteria Are the Cake

Andrew H. Knoll, Ph.D. '77, Fisher professor of natural history, is a paleontologist who integrates geological and biological perspectives on...

Undergraduate Scribes

Harvard Magazine's Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows—and "Undergraduate" columnists—for this academic year are...

One Nation, under Allah

Several years ago, an international wire service carried a story about a blind man in Saudi Arabia who visited his doctor for an annual...

For the Virtual Museumgoer

The Busch-Reisinger museum will celebrate its hundredth birthday by mounting an exhibition, from October 24 through February 15, 2004, devoted...

$400 Million for Law

It rained on the Harvard Law School (HLS) rainmakers gathered in Langdell Hall for dinner on Friday, June 13, and in a heated tent on Holmes...

Stadium Stories

November 1903: Dartmouth scores the first Stadium touchdown. Note unfinished stands.Harvard University Sports InformationINAUSPICIOUS...

Kenny Little oversees Harvard’s athletic memorabilia

The curator of the Lee Family Hall of Athletic History, at the Murr Center, is Warren M. "Renny" Little ’55, a track man in his youth...

"I used to have to drag myself out of bed at 6 a.m. and go to work."

Kelly Close spends her workdays handing out financial and marketing advice related to diabetes. The rest of the time she just lives with the...

Liberty's Defending Angel

Her noble passion may have sprung from a frustrated appetite: even by Harvard standards, Nadine Strossen '72, J.D. '75, is a voracious reader...

by Craig Lambert

Our Founding Grandfather

Benjamin Franklin, himself a prolific writer of exceptional grace and vigor, would surely be delighted with the vivid accounts of his life that...

America's Stake in the Multilateral World

Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, LL.D. '03, president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000 and now director of Yale's Center for the Study of...

Making the Case

All professional schools face the same difficult challenge: how to prepare students for the world of practice. Time in the classroom must...