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Life on the Culinary Edge
When Jeffrey L. Steingarten switched careers in 1989, leaving the profession of law to join Vogue magazine as its resident food critic, he had...
Hoops, Eastern European-style
Fittingly, Emina and Haso Peljto had their first date at a basketball game. The Yugoslavian couple married and had two children, both of whom...
Brevia
Robert C. Clark Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard News Office Legal Leader Thanksgiving week, Robert C. Clark, a corporate-law scholar who...
Reconfiguring Radcliffe
The institutional transformation of Radcliffe into an center for advanced study will be followed by physical changes, as the institute reclaims...
Economic Woman
Women's work? A traveling exhibition offers engaging examples:Elizabeth Murray (1726-1785), a colonial "she-merchant" who ran a...
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CLIMATE CHANGEI tried to write a book about changing our climate. When I realized that it had to be called "Avoiding Genocide," I...
Chapter & Verse
Harvey Carnes seeks the author of a poem about Lincoln: "young Abe/of the too-short pants/and too-long legs" who becomes "...Abe/of the sad...
First Principles, on the Web
In uncertain times, it can be helpful to return to first principles. Harvard scholars do so in all political and social weathers, of course...
A Satisfying Season
A wipeout on the slippery Astroturf of the University of Pennsylvania's Franklin Field dished the football team's hopes of gaining a second...
Crimson on the Hill
The Republicans may have swept Capitol Hill in the November elections, but the Democrats remain firmly in control of Harvard's contingent of...
Peak Professorships
The ranks of University Professors—Harvard's supreme academic appointment—have changed significantly with the elevation of two faculty...
Phenome Fellow
In a Marist monastery in southern Bavaria, 11-year-old Hans Hofmann began his classical education. "I studied Greek, Latin, and...