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Your Friend, Fidel

Jorge I. Domínguez, Dillon professor of international affairs and director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard...

The Grounds Round

Alain de Vergie '56 finds it entertaining and informative to scan the want ads...

Commencement Address, the Genre

Commencement speeches, according to cartoonist Garry Trudeau, "were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never...

Freewheeling at 50 M.P.H.

Swooping left, then right, now cruising straight ahead at the speed of a fresh gale, then suddenly diving into a hollow and rising up together...

An "Understandable" Complication

A phrase that applies to just about every surgical procedure might be "This is going to get worse before it gets better." Surgeons themselves...

Dean Murphy Moves On

Dean moves on

Commencement Confetti

Student linen-crew workers made up the dorm beds that would welcome reunioners. Some beds were then changed as alumni departed and new ones...

"A Hazard of Good Fortune"

A few years ago, in this very theater, we began a major undertaking together, and we did so without knowing quite how, or perhaps even whether...

Staying Active without Climbing Mount Everest

Darting around his living room, Brad Washburn '33, L.H.D. '75, shows a visitor excerpts from his latest manuscript and copies of his alpine...

by Nell Porter-Brown

News from the HAA

Election winners...

Distant Planets

In the last five years, the idea of finding planets orbiting other stars has gone from a science-fiction fantasy to a reality frequently...

by Jonathan Shaw

Beyond Wages in the Workplace

Paying and training low-wage employees decently