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"I don't want to be stereotyped."

TOM RINALDI '95 Age 29, New York City. Equity research   Tom Rinaldi '95 Photograph by Robert Adam Mayer How do you meet people?...

Far-out Sagittarian

An artist's rendering of OGLE-TR-56b and its star Illustration courtesy Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Five thousand light...

by Craig Lambert

Ladakhi Ladies

These figures of women, each about 18 inches tall, hail from Ladakh, a region of Kashmir and one of earth's highest places. Wearing traditional...

The Way of the Long Strings

To be a virtuoso musician and a college student at the same time is somewhat like forcing two people into one body: something's got to give...

Noel Michele Holbrook

Noel Michele Holbrook Photograph by Stu Rosner Missy Holbrook '83 grew up in a suburb of Washington, D.C., where she somehow...

Harvard Calendar

SPECIAL. Enjoy readings by Jorie Graham, Mary Karr, and Maxine Kumin, and panel discussions involving other poets and scholars at Poetry at...

Steve Gould's Baseball Blind Spot

The favorite baseball player of the late Harvard professor Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)—as readers of a new collection of his essays on...

Censuring the Census

The 1890 U.S. census asked blacks to identify their status as "mulattoes," "quadroons," or "octoroons." Such...

Societal Doctor

Can doctors teach the rest of us to follow a piece of advice from Hippocrates—"Help, or at least, do no harm" —when dealing...

The Watertown Agreement

The fact that Harvard has agreed to pay Watertown $3.8 million annually plus 3 percent compounded over 52 years (see "Watertown-Gown...

Quantity Time

Four years ago, when my first child was two years old and I was six months pregnant, I left my law career to become a stay-at-home mother...

Unveiled

Grenville Lindall Winthrop, A.B. 1886, LL.B. '89, had a passion for beauty. He had financial resources, leisure, and eclectic tastes, and...

by Christopher Reed