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Relax and Renew

Places to start the new year off right 

by Kara Baskin

Cover of Chinese edition of book, Harvard A to Z

Bookish

Course catalog redux, a Chinese take on Harvard “glitz and glamour,” and the mathmetician-movie buff

by Primus VI

Restored to Nature

Landscape architect Mikyoung Kim’s healing arts

by Lydialyle Gibson

Photo of Sara N. Bleich, responsible for implementing recommendations from Harvard slavery report

News in Brief

Rankled about rankings, acting on the slavery report, and more

Illustration of pill bottles, and the long shadow of higher drug prices supported by coupons

How Coupons Keep Drugs Costly

Pharmaceutical companies subsidize the cost of their drugs to keep prices high.

by Erin O’Donnell

Plates of chicken, potatoes, seafood from Brockton restaurant

Brockton’s Enterprising Restaurateurs

Exploring Cape Verdean and Caribbean cuisine

by Nell Porter-Brown

When Children Fall Ill

“You work in the hope space, and you tend to the grief.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Fernando Zóbel-Montojo

Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984

by Felipe Pereda

Thomas J. Hollister, vice president for finance

Black Ink—and Red

A huge budget surplus, but a down year for the endowment

by John S. Rosenberg

Mum’s the Word

The endowment data drought, and the FAS dean’s downsized report

Three men juggle while roller-skating

The Forgotten Jugglers

Vaudeville's mysterious Ader Brothers

by Nancy Walecki

Conflicting cultures in Africa: “The Missionary burns the House of a Witch,” ca. 1750, from the book, Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections