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Off the Shelf
Harvard’s Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals, by William Wright (St. Martin’s Press, $25.95). A...
Reality 101
I wore the wrong shoes to my first day of work this summer. I don’t know what inspired me to choose the pointy black pair with elastic...
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SO YOU WANT TO BE 120 Is aging necessary? (“The Aging Enigma,” by Jonathan Shaw, September-October, page 46). You bet it is...
University People
Vice President’s Ciao Ann E. Berman Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard News Office Vice president for finance Ann E. Berman will...
Russia Case (and Dust) Settle
Though the two official news releases announced the same agreement, their content diverged sharply regarding the settlement of a long-running...
In Bronze for Posterity
A bust of Werner Jaeger (1888-1961) presides over the common room of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. He is...
The Character and Language of Pain
The difficulty of treating pain flows in part from the difficulty people have in expressing and characterizing their painful sensations. In her...
Alumni Gatherings
Upcoming Alumni Colleges include “Women in the War Zone” and “Harvard in the Olympics.” The events are organized by the...
The Active Life
Robert Bunshaft ’39, M.B.A. ’41, and his wife, Doris, played tennis almost every day for 50 years. Now in their 80s, they still meet...
Early Autumn Sports
Soccer After a 1-0 loss to Vermont, the men’s side (4-3-1) ran off three wins over Coastal Carolina, Maine, and Fairfield before dropping...
Meeting the Multiverse
It began with Isaac Newton. With the publication of his Principia in 1687, Newton became the first scientist to demonstrate that nature’s...
Gore Vidal, Lost and Found
Like many stories, this one began at an improbable distance in space and time from where it ended. The saga of how the Harvard Review (see...