Letters

10.8.2025

Readers write in about international students at Harvard, the September-October cover, and changes at the Chan School of Public Health.

3.1.2005

WATER AND OIL The quote from Azzam Alwash, director of the Eden Again Project, with which Christopher Reed's article on Iraq's Marsh Arabs...

1.1.2005

THE CENTER OF THE WORLD The Middle East and western Asia are again, as ever, at the center of the world: the birthplace of recorded history...

11.1.2004

ART FAKERYWhen I saw the cover of the September-October issue, I wondered, Why would anyone want to fake a rather junky-looking piece of...

9.1.2004

STEM-CELL RESEARCH Poor Jack, or is it Jill, pictured sitting atop a needle on the cover of your July-August issue ("Stem-Cell...

7.1.2004

THE FLABBY POPULACEGreat article by Craig Lambert on "The Way We Eat Now" (May-June, page 50), the best I have read on the subject...

5.1.2004

THE POWER OF EXERCISE "The Deadliest Sin," by Jonathan Shaw (March-April, page 36), is the first article that I have seen to discuss...

3.1.2004

JUDGING THE DEFICIT DANGERWhat's good for short-run fiscal policy is bad for long-run fiscal policy ("The Deficit Danger," by Benjamin...

1.1.2004

BIOTERRORISM THREATSNestled as it is between the "invisible college" of Copernicus and the Harvard Medical School research-building...

11.1.2003

THE STADIUM'S CENTENNIALI was initially intrigued by the sidebar "Little Red Flag" in Craig Lambert and John Bethell's "First and...

9.1.2003

PYRAMID BUILDERSI read withgreat interest "Who Built thePyramids?" by Jonathan Shaw (July-August, page 42), describingMark Lehner's...