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Ready for Growth?
Harvard proposes to put shovels in the ground not only to build a new campus in Allston but, far more modestly, to put up a research and...
Harvard@Home
The University’s on-line learning programs (accessible via athome.harvard.edu) provide a wide range of material on courses, events...
Uneasy Neighbors: A Brief History of Mexican-U.S. Migration
The recent political sparring over immigration reform has included scant mention of cross-border diplomacy. Despite the growing interdependence...
Events of the Week
The many rituals of graduation peak on Commencement day, which this year includes addresses by President Derek Bok and Microsoft cofounder and...
An Earlier Bid for Mastery
New genetic knowledge may let us manipulate our nature: beef up our muscles, brush up our memory, make designer children. What’s wrong...
Signals for Change
With his flowing white hair and Mixtec Indian physique, Hugo Morales ’72, J.D. ’75, spoke recently to a crowd, mostly prominent...
Modern Milk
The milk we drink today may not be nature’s perfect food,” says Ganmaa Davaasambuu, a Mongolian physician who is a fellow this year...
Off the Fast Track
Slow down, please, said community members comprising the Harvard-Allston Task Force. May we take things one at a time? Of course, said Harvard...
An Invitation to Reminisce
Daniel Gensler ’72, one of the students gathered below on the steps of University Hall in this April 1969 photograph, invites classmates...
Science's “Third Branch”
Why are doctors from Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital working with Harvard astrophysicists? And why is Professor Jeff Lichtman...
The Enigmatic Mr. Putin
Who is Mr. Putin?” The question reverberated in world capitals when Boris Yeltsin called a press conference on August 9, 1999, to...
Red Books, Raw Gems
Please tell your classmates, in a paragraph or two, what you would like them to know about your activities, interests, family life, career...