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April Fool Every Day

Comedian Andy Borowitz ’80 has moved from Hollywood success to a multifaceted life as a humorist in New York.

by Craig Lambert

Square Eats

Some nearby dining gems

by Nell Porter-Brown

That’s No Excuse! Countering Reunion Objections

...and some mechanisms to motivate attendance

Fighting Disease in Situ

A new technique aims to boost the body’s ability to seek out and destroy cancer cells.

Song for Hard Times

The classic folksong “One Meat Ball” got its start at Harvard.

Brevia

News of the University and the Harvard community

Venture Funding for Frontier Science

Nine Harvard affiliates received "high-risk research" support in 2008 from the National Institutes of Health.

The Dalai Lama Visits to Speak—and Plant a Tree

The Dalai Lama spoke at Memorial Church and planted an honorary birch tree with President Faust.

Video: High-Tech Golf Lesson

Harvard Magazine took varsity golfer Emily Balmert '09 for a high-tech golf lesson.

The Bells Return to Russia

A New Yorker article explores the Lowell House bells' journey back to Russia—and how they came to be at Harvard in the first place.

Report on Harvard University Police Department Released

A committee appointed to review ways to improve the University police department's relationship with the Harvard community issues its report.

On the Medicalization of Our Culture

In a Humanities Center symposium, scholars outlined how the concepts of disease and diagnosis pervade ever more facets of our lives.