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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...
Hertzberg on the Record
The following is an extended sampling of writing by Hendrik Hertzberg '65, staff writer for the New Yorker, "...where he has since become the most stylish liberal political essayist in America...
Simple Hosts
There is no florist in the lobby of Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston. In fact, anyone who attempts to deliver a get-well begonia or a...
The Blaxploitation Era
Three of last summer's popular film comediesBarbershop, Undercover Brother, and Austin Powers: Goldmemberrecalled, in one way or...
The Joys of Adult Education
Nearly 30 years after his college graduation, John W. Cobb '49, Gp '94, finally hunkered down to tackle what he'd always wanted to learn:...
Mountain Man
John E.V.C. Moon '52, Ph.D. '68, retired recently, having spent the greater part of his career as an historian of biological and chemical...
Seven-Week Itch
Coaches and athletes throughout the Ivy League gnashed their teeth this fall over a new policy that the Ivy presidents put in place last...