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Harvard’s 50-Year Plan
Ten million square feet of new buildings, as many as 12,000 new jobs, and many billions of dollars: the numbers alone suggest the scope of...
Chapter & Verse
Wayles Brown asks whether anyone can provide an exact source and the precise wording for a comment often attributed to Oscar Wilde: “The...
Families grapple with preserving properties through the generations
Although I have spent only a month or two here each year for four decades, I have always thought of it as home, if home is the one place that...
Avant-Garde Incubator
The blip festival may be unfamiliar to you, but for lovers of “low-bit music,” it’s the world’s premier event. Late last...
Last and Best
In sports, as in life, a momentary twist of fate can change everything that follows. So it is with wrestler Olabode “Bode&rdquo...
Brevia
An Eye on Immigration Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Art Museums © President and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard...
The Presidency, Pending
Feverish speculation notwithstanding, the Corporation did not use its regularly scheduled meeting with the Board of Overseers during the first...
Reviewing "Reality"
The scene, at least the one framed by the family-room proscenium of the television screen, remains indelible. President George W. Bush emerged...
Talented Eccentrics
Within living memory, computer programming was handicraft. Individual programmers strained to create works that were both useful and...
"Listen my children..."
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." And you shall hear/Of the midnight ride of Paul...
"The Gates of Paradise"
The main baptistery doors of the Duomo in Florence, created by Lorenzo Ghiberti between 1425 and 1452, are among the masterpieces that ushered...
University People
Security Secretary Juliette N. Kayyem Kennedy School of Government lecturer in public policy Juliette N. Kayyem...