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Catfish, Not Salmon

First poor Southern boy with no formal education or career ambitions, then writer, poet, actor, translator, cryptographer, puppeteer, costume...

All about the Details

If you arrived early Saturday morning at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) on Presidents' Day weekend, you might have been surprised...

by Garrett M. Graff

Portrait of a Pioneer

On February 11, a portrait of astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was scheduled to be unveiled on the wall of the Faculty Room in University...

Muscle of Optimism

Most people think of the human heart as a fist-sized, valve-studded chunk of muscle, a pump bright red as Superman's cape and nearly as strong...

A Woodsplint Basket

Displayed in the "Hall of the North American Indian" at Harvard University's Peabody Museum, the basket looks like many others made in...

The Zakim Center for Integrated Therapies

The Leaonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, the new span connecting Boston and Charleston, honors the memory of a Boston citizen with a gift fro...

To answer more questions...

Websites www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/html/busjobsearch. This comprehensive site for Harvard's Office of Career Services lists career advice...

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Malls on the Median

On a sunny Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles, a woman buys a funky '50s-era dress. A recent immigrant from El Salvador sells a dozen blue-corn...

Law School Locale

Harvard Law School (HLS) is carefully weighing the pros and cons of building a new campus for itself in Allston. A "locational...

Living Wage: Next Stage

On the last day of January, President Lawrence H. Summers announced that the University would adopt the "living wage" recommendations...

Mayr at Harvard

In 1953, a decade after the triumph of his Systematics and the Origin of Species, Harvard attracted Mayr--by then the world's leading...