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Brevia

Short takes on recent news

"Resizing," before "Reshaping"

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences tackles a massive budget crisis.

Matt Lauer

Commencement Confetti

Notes and statistics, vital and otherwise

Cukes, summer squash, and plenty of other local produce and homemade goods may be found at the Farmers’ Market at Harvard

Extracurriculars

Suggestions for your summertime schedule

This portrait of Smith forms part of a mural, by Nelson Chase, that decorates the Aesculapian Room of the Harvard Club of Boston.

Theobald Smith

A brief profile of the pioneering comparative pathologist

by Steven M. Niemi

And the Winners Are...

Results of the 2009 Overseer and Harvard Alumni Association elected director races

Scheft (left) shares a laugh with his boss.

Letters & Letterman

Bill Scheft ‘79 writes comedy for David Letterman, as well as novels.

by Craig Lambert

Gregg Hurwitz

Slaying Dragons

A crime novelist explores the deepest cracks in the human heart.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Printed Catalogs: R.I.P.

A Harvard fixture bites the dust.

"If You Love Rats"

The Harvard Medical School Class Day address

Students and workers protested layoffs on June 25, in a march that began in Harvard Yard and proceeded to Holyoke Center.

Harvard Layoffs Update (June 30, 2009)

School-specific news on layoffs; FAS cost-cutting working groups; and the endowment's forward commitments

The Tall Book, by Arianne Cohen, describes the lives of tall people.

Arianne Cohen ’03 celebrates “life from on high” in a new book that discusses tall people's perspectives and prospects.