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Brief life of public thinker Stuart Chase
On a chilly autumn day in 1911, Stuart Chase entered the Boston Public Library and, finding a seat in the economics section, composed a personal...
Having Fun with the News
Even after six years and continuing success at the helm of National Public Radio's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me, Peter Sagal...
Off the Shelf
Neoconomy: George Bush's Revolutionary Gamble with America's Future, by Daniel Altman '96, Ph.D. '00 (Public Affairs, $26.95). "The...
A Prescription for Change
On a sweltering summer afternoon, Cheryl L. Dorsey '85, M.D.-M.P.P. '92, is hard at work, cruising briskly down the Bronx River in a homemade...
Pay the Term Bill in Barrel Hoops
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Roger Thompson of Norwich, England, an emeritus professor of...
Letter from Phnom Penh
Editor's note: Arianne Cohen '03, a former Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow, spent the last academic year in Cambodia. Now, while...
Undergraduate Tuition
During the past 20 years, Harvard's undergraduate bill has risen from $14,000 to $39,880 per academic year (before any offsetting financial...
Shakespeare, the Age and the Icon
"When you read literary works or see them on the stage, as in the case of Shakespeare," says Stephen Greenblatt, "you are...
The Self-Made Mindset
David L. Bodde, D.B.A. '75, and Poonam Sharma '99 enrolled at Harvard a generation apart, but the two authors offer the same advice to anyone...
Chow-crowd Pleaser
In 2001, just before the Boston Red Sox franchise sold for $700 million, an investor group headed by Joe O'Donnell '67, M.B.A. '71, pulled out...
Extreme Housing
There are more than 20 million refugees in the world, and for many of them, home consists of UN-donated plastic sheeting held up by sticks...
Profile of Harvard quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick '05
Though the Harvard football team runs one of the most sophisticated offensive sets in the country, the team also likes to play what they call...