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A Harvard father and daughter unicycle for the Central Asia Institute

A Harvard father and daughter raise money to benefit children in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The Last of His Kind: A new biography of mountaineer and photographer H. Bradfor

The life of mountaineer, pioneering aerial photographer, and Museum of Science leader H. Bradford Washburn, newly chronicled by fellow mountaineer David Roberts ’65.

Myers + Chang: Boston Restaurants on Twitter

The alumna and other Boston restaurant owners enter the digital fray.

Jill Lepore on Ayelet Waldman, Michael Lewis, and the cultural history of parent

History professor Jill Lepore's take on recent parenting memoirs

A professor with Harvard Kennedy School ties attacks gang violence.

A professor with Kennedy School ties questions zero-tolerance policing policies.

David McCann wants sijo, an ancient form of Korean poetry, to catch on.

Professor David McCann wants an ancient form of Korean poetry to catch on the way haiku has.

Great books teach life lessons: Christopher Beha reads the Harvard Classics cove

A new book documents a Princetonian’s year-long immersion in the Harvard Classics, the venerable "Five-foot Shelf" of Great Books.

A Worldly Week

Commencement celebrants and celebrations faced up to real world problems.

The SIGnboard

Updates from Shared Interest Groups

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

The Senior Celebrants of 2009

Harvard’s most venerable alumni

How Depression Lingers

After depression patients recover, their brains still process criticism differently.

by Elizabeth Gudrais