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Network for the Next Generation
The surveillance area of Harvard's network operations center (NOC) bears a fleeting resemblance to the helm of a starship. The large screen at...
Back to Basics
In the liner notes to the John Adams Earbox, 10 compact discs of works, primarily orchestral, by John Adams '69, A.M. '72, the composer recounts...
Parish+Precinct=Peaceful Streets
It was yet another funeral for yet another young man killed in yet another drive-by shooting. But this time the violence didn't wait while...
Sensational, Shocking Tabloid Run by Harvard Grad!
For a few months recently, the National Enquirer added a two-word prefix to its name on the cover: it was "The New National Enquirer."...
A Student in Beijing
Thousands of bicycles. Ubiquitous laundry lines. Hard beds and squat toilets. Metal meal tins. White bureaucratic slips of paper with red...
The Provost Meets the Press...
Harvey v. Fineberg '67, M.D. '71, M.P.P. '72, Ph.D. '80, who had served as dean of the School of Public Health since 1984, was appointed...
The Students' "Splendid Misery"
Students at Harvard Law School have always complained about their splendid misery, citing the cutthroat competition, overcrowded classes, and...
Off the Shelf
Linnaeus: Nature and Nation, by Lisbet Koerner, Ph.D. '93, associate of the department of the history of science (Harvard University Press...
Yesterday's News
1920 The physical examination of all 700 Harvard freshmen, in connection with a new system of compulsory freshman athletics, has been completed...
Waving the Flag
IN 1913 Loomis Temple of Music of New Haven published sheet music for a Yale fight song called "Good Night Harvard." "Good-Night...
Burned at the Buzzer
The big hit of the New York theater season in 1894 was William Gillette's Too Much Johnson. It was a farce, but when it was revived at Yale Bowl...
Where the Bones Are
Documentary accounts of the historic past seldom capture the flavor of daily life hundreds of years ago. But broken pipestems, clay marbles, and...