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School CEO
Ever since Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley named Arne Duncan '86 chief executive officer of the city's public schools in June 2001, many...
The Party Line on Flab
If obesity were a symbol of success, the United States would be a boomtown on the frontier of flab. But excess fat isn't a measure of...
Catcher on the Fly
The game's turning point—and perhaps the play that locked up last year's Ivy football title—came with 6:57 left in the third period...
University People
Bridging a Graduate Gap A scientist follows an historian of science, as James M. Hogle and Doreen Hogle succeed Everett I. Mendelsohn and Mary...
Developmental Troubles
When the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) was disbanded in 2000, it meant the disappearance of the University's largest...
Dorm Decor
"To me [my room] will always be haunted by my companions who have been there, by the books that I have read there, by the pleasure and the...
Chapter & Verse
Lewis Robinson asks who wrote of never seeing a man with a large house and barn without imagining him carrying the house and barn on his back....
Recovered Memory
Campus turmoil tumbled into Robinson Hall during the 1969 strike, when students turned the building into a factory for the production of...
Jimmy Rushing sings the Harvard Blues, with difficulty
I wear Brooks clothes and white shoes all the time...
Inhibited Killers
Until recently, teenage violence was widely considered a deplorable and tragic phenomenon of inner cities. Experts linked childhood aggression...
First Impression
Anna Harkey's cylinder seal, when rolled across damp clay, yields an autobiography in relief. The image includes her name in English, the year...
H-R History Online
Have you an urgent need to know the number of genito-urinary disorders in horses that doctors treated at the Free Clinic of Harvard's Veterinary...