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Harvard football versus Yale
By defeating Yale, Harvard shares the Ivy League crown with Brown.
2008-09 Rhodes Scholars Named
The winners include two Harvard seniors and one doctoral student at the Graduate School of Education.
Bittersweet Victory
The Obama win, and the changes in American society it portends, came too late for some. Roger Angell remembers one of those individuals.
Law School Alumna Wins National Book Award
Annette Gordon-Reed’s book on a slave family owned by Thomas Jefferson takes the nonfiction prize.
Gearing Up for The Game
The New York Times reviews “Harvard Beats Yale 29-29.”
Itinerant Scholar
The interests of Berkman Center fellow Lewis Hyde include Thoreau; writing poetry; and intellectual property in the digital age—and he manages to draw connections between them.
Harvard's Dapper Dean
The Boston Globe counts Graduate School of Design dean Mohsen Mostafavi among the city’s most stylish denizens.
Landmark Newsstand May Close
Out of Town News has opted not to renew its lease, the Harvard Crimson reports.
Dean Outlines FAS’s Financial Straits
Dean Michael D. Smith outlined for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences the severe challenges—as much as a $200-million shortfall in revenue—looming in the next year as the endowment declines in value.
From the Presidency to the Cabinet?
Stanley Fish asks whether Larry Summers has the people skills to serve as Obama’s Treasury Secretary.
Good Work Goes Beyond a Paycheck
Education scholar Howard Gardner’s recipe for professional fulfillment
Crossing the Ultimate Color Line
As Barack Obama prepares to take office, Henry Louis Gates Jr. reflects on how far black Americans have come in his lifetime.