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Zvon Song?
According to the Moscow Times, the monks of the Danilov Monastery in Moscow are preparing a formal petition to Harvard for the return of the...
Accidental Academics
(Please note that I should not be writing this column: I have a thesis chapter due on Thursday and pages to go before I sleep...) Harvard...
A "Down Payment" on Financial Aid
The university has created new scholarships, launched a dedicated fundraising drive, and unveiled a low-cost loan program to assist graduate-...
The Originals
During a late-night bull session at Winthrop House in 1965, Harvard undergraduates Jeff C. Tarr '66 and Vaughan Morrill '66 dreamed up what was...
Off the Shelf
Will Chandler at the helm The Cruise of the Blue Dolphin: A Family's Adventure at Sea, by Nina Chandler Murray (Lyons Press, $24.95)...
Race, Sex, and Love
Tiger Woods, possibly the world's best-known athlete, resists being called a "black" golfer. He coined the term "Cablinasian" (Caucasian...
Winter Sports
Men's Basketball The hoopsters (10-7, 2-2 Ivy) started well and twice dominated Dartmouth, but lost games to Ivy powers Princeton (67-61) and...
Lord Byron on Demand
Harvard University Press's backlist is both one of its greatest blessings on the world of scholars and a strong source of income—but only...
Prowlers Discover Harvard Valuables
Emilie Norris and Nina Cohen are the prowlers, officially sanctioned and strictly aboveboard. They range widely throughout Harvard to conduct...
Of Ants and Earth
Formal retirement hasn't slowed E. O. Wilson down at all. Since assuming emeritus status as Pellegrino University Research Professor in 1997...
"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...