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Felipe Calderón

Mexican president to address Harvard Kennedy School graduates

Felipe Calderón, M.P.A. ’00, will deliver the 2010 graduation address.

Borowitz on Need to Know TV show

Humorist Andy Borowitz ’80 will do a comedy segment each week on a new PBS news program, Need to Know.

Nitin Nohria

Harvard Business School Dean Nohria Appointed

An appointment from within to lead management education

Laura Mehlinger with a Colorfield romper, in silk with mesh streamers (left), and a silk-and-mesh veil chemise

Highbrow Lingerie

Fashion designer Laura Mehlinger draws on inspirations ranging from Vladimer Nabokow to Prince.

Nicholas Christakis

Network scientists at Harvard: Nicholas Christakis, Laura Bogart, Martin Nowak

Exploring the weblike structures that underlie everything from friendship to cellular behavior

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Found on eBay, this barrel now belongs to Robert G. Milstein ’46, of Saratoga Springs, New York. He has no idea of its original purpose. It is 15 inches high. Harvard archivists Robin McElheny and Barbara Meloni think it looks like “a reunion prop,” maybe from the Depression era. Readers, any ideas?

The Harvard-Eleuthera connection, and a mystery barrel

Of philanthropy rewarded, broken glass, and pennies for Harvard

Headlines from Harvard history

Headlines from Harvard history

Photograph by Stu Rosner

Commencement Week events

A list of the highlights, with links to find more

Jared Diamond and James Robinson apply "natural experiments" to studying histor

Applying "natural experiments" to the study of history

by Elizabeth Gudrais

I Saw You Harvard

Anonymous voices from the lonely Harvard crowd

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Quotation Q & A

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

From “The Sea-Level Fingerprint of West Antarctic Collapse” (6 February 2009) <i>Science</i> 323 (5915), 753. Reprinted with permission from AAAS

Jerry Mitrovica explains the uneven rise in sea levels as glaciers melt

Deciphering sea levels

by Elizabeth Gudrais