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Shards in the City

Urban archaeologists peel back the concrete skins of modern cities in search of the material remains of the past. The task challenges...

Drying Out "The Game"

Reacting swiftly to the alcohol-related problems at last November's edition of The Game (see "Unsavory Record," January-February, page...

Radcliffe Recruits

A pair of senior faculty appointments unveiled shortly before the beginning of the academic year underscores the intellectual ambitions and new...

Eliot's Elect: The Harvard Classics, 1910

"On or about December, 1910," Virginia Woolf wrote, "human character changed." Woolf was not referring to a specific event...

Harvard Calendar

MUSIC. Memorial Church hosts the annual Christmas Carol Services on December 9 at 5 p.m. and December 10 at 8 p.m. Call 617-495-8597 for...

When Systems Fracture

As the enormity of September 11 sank in, a fertilizer factory near Toulouse, France, exploded, killing 29 people and hospitalizing at least 780...

A Leap into Books

For 17 years Paul Dry '66 commuted to the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, where he was a successful, if not terribly high-rolling, stock-options trader.

A Brush with Amazon Justice

Juan, the policeman, spoke softly, almost apologetically, "Doctorcito, I'm sorry, but I must arrest you." I looked up from the...

The "Nicest Building in the Yard"

For almost three centuries, Massachusetts Hall has stood quietly at the entrance of Harvard Yard. It is perhaps more quintessentially Harvard...

James P. Sullivan

Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) radio dispatchers refer to officers by their badge numbers. Patrolman James P. Sullivan's badge is...

Fighting West Nile

Behind Harvard Stadium, in a dark facilities-maintenance shed, Paul Reiter is stirring a witch's brew he uses to attract female mosquitoes. He...

An American Zen Master at Harvard

San Francisco Zen Center was founded by Shunryu Suzuki, and his Dharma heir was Richard Dudley Baker '58. Once at the hot core of the...