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Ladakhi Ladies
These figures of women, each about 18 inches tall, hail from Ladakh, a region of Kashmir and one of earth's highest places. Wearing traditional...
The Way of the Long Strings
To be a virtuoso musician and a college student at the same time is somewhat like forcing two people into one body: something's got to give...
Noel Michele Holbrook
Noel Michele Holbrook Photograph by Stu Rosner Missy Holbrook '83 grew up in a suburb of Washington, D.C., where she somehow...
Harvard Calendar
SPECIAL. Enjoy readings by Jorie Graham, Mary Karr, and Maxine Kumin, and panel discussions involving other poets and scholars at Poetry at...
Steve Gould's Baseball Blind Spot
The favorite baseball player of the late Harvard professor Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)as readers of a new collection of his essays on...
Censuring the Census
The 1890 U.S. census asked blacks to identify their status as "mulattoes," "quadroons," or "octoroons." Such...
Societal Doctor
Can doctors teach the rest of us to follow a piece of advice from Hippocrates—"Help, or at least, do no harm" —when dealing...
The Watertown Agreement
The fact that Harvard has agreed to pay Watertown $3.8 million annually plus 3 percent compounded over 52 years (see "Watertown-Gown...
Quantity Time
Four years ago, when my first child was two years old and I was six months pregnant, I left my law career to become a stay-at-home mother...
Unveiled
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, A.B. 1886, LL.B. '89, had a passion for beauty. He had financial resources, leisure, and eclectic tastes, and...
"We tend to over-intellectualize everything."
by NICK MALIS '99 Age 25, Los Angeles. Screenwriter People always say that no one dates in college. Let me clarify. Cool...
Jabber and Bael
In simpler times, Southerners ate Krispy Kremes and New Englanders ate Dunkin' Donuts. Texans wore cowboy hats and New Yorkers wore black...