June 21, 2011

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Published in the September-October 2011 print issue under the headline “The Classes,” in the Alumni section.

A crumbling wall in Harvard Square holds centuries of the city’s story, if you know how to read it.

The March 20 suit seeks to rescind research grants that were restored in an earlier court ruling.

An architect of Black women’s studies, Barbara Smith introduced the concepts of “identity politics” and “intersectionality.”

How an abundance of A’s created “the most stressed-out world of all.”

Scientists are revisiting an old way of thinking about extinction.

Cutting-edge discoveries, distilled