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The Rub on the Pub

Undergraduates will soon be able to relax in a new campus pub, scheduled to open early in April. The gathering spot is part of a $4.5-million...

Student Financial Assistance: FY 2005

Financial support for degree-candidate students amounts to a half-billion-dollar-plus commitment by the University. These data, from fiscal year...

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...

by Nell Porter-Brown

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...

by Craig Lambert

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...

by Craig Lambert

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...

by Craig Lambert

A Taste of Judy Budnitz

Read an excerpt from "Nadia," by Judy Budnitz...

“Crossing Boundaries”

From her very first messages about the new institute, Faust emphasized “Radcliffe’s potential to create interest and engagement across the University.” She realized that potential in a variety of ways, not all of them widely known...