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An American Zen Master at Harvard
San Francisco Zen Center was founded by Shunryu Suzuki, and his Dharma heir was Richard Dudley Baker '58. Once at the hot core of the...
News from the HAA
Aloian Winners Established in 1988 to honor the late David Aloian '49, a former executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) and...
Brand-name Geniuses
The madding crowds of eighteenth-century England demanded fine china as fiercely as today's jittery crowds crave caffe lattes. For more than 200...
The Take-on Artist
Whether or not her kick in the womb was especially strong, forward Joey Yenne '03 of the women's soccer team showed competitive fire very early...
Housing after Randomization
In the annals of undergraduate housing, the graduation of the class of 2001 marked the end of an era. My freshman year, the seniors weren't...
Installation: A Summers Day
Lawrence H. Summers, Ph.D. '82, matriculated formally as Harvard's twenty-seventh president on October 12. The occasion had many of the...
In the Eye of the Storm
Regularly the dismal news streams in from Japan. The "lost decade"--dating from the early 1990s, when the country's seemingly...
Off the Shelf
Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America, by John F. Kasson '66 (Hill and Wang, $26)...
Nabob of the No-huddle
The National Football League (NFL) has had only one head coach with a Harvard degree, but he was an awfully good one. This year, Marv Levy, A.M...
Installation Roistering
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." The first installation of a Harvard president about which we...
Brevia
CONCEIVING CUBISM. The Fogg Art Museum has acquired Georges Braque's La Baie de l'Estaque (Bay of l'Estaque), painted in 1908. Created during...
Ways and Means: Harvard's Wage Debate
In partial response to the "living-wage" sit-in at Massachusetts Hall last spring and demands for a $10.25 hourly minimum wage for the...