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Harvard A to Z
(Excerpted from Harvard A to Z, by John T. Bethell, Richard M. Hunt, and Robert Shenton, published this May by Harvard University Press...
Meet the New Marshal
As a long-time Harvard administrator, Jacqueline A. O'Neill has attended so many Commencements that she can almost recite the script by heart...
Requiescat
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." April 22 was the centenary of the birth of J. Robert...
Good Work
Wendy Fischman, Ed ’99, Becca Solomon, Ed ’99, Deborah Greenspan, and Howard Gardner ’65, Ph.D. ’71, Making Good: How...
Where the Girls Are
Ilana DeBare '80 has an odd confession to share. Until a few years ago, she'd never set foot in an all-girls school. In fact, she says, if her...
The Library’s Healers
Dorothea ("Thea") Burns is hunched over a table holding a scalpel. Ever so gently she teases off fragments of a thick, rigid...
Louis Menand
Louis MenandPhotograph by Stu RosnerThough readers of the New Yorker might identify him as a gifted book critic and stylish essayist—his...
Medicare Solutions and Problems
The addition of prescription-drug coverage to Medicare is the first substantial expansion of benefits since the program was enacted nearly 40...
Complicated Relationship
Freshman women officially joined their male counterparts in Harvard Yard's dormitories in 1972. But 25 years later, when Harvard College...
by Jean Martin
Alumni College: Play Ball!
An upcoming Alumni College seminar will explore the financial side of America's favorite sport, followed by a field trip to Fenway Park for an...
Ideas Rain In
In 1675 Isaac Newton suffered a mental breakdownsome modern psychiatrists diagnose him as a manic-depressiveand he was still...
The Newest Rhodes
The newest Rhodes: Shazrene Mohamed '04, from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, is Harvard's seventh Rhodes Scholarship winner for 2004 (see "The Rhodes...