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Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence, by A.J. Langguth 55 (Simon & Schuster, $30). This gripping history of...
Challenges on the Field and Off
Beset by an ugly string of off-season incidents, the football team sought to make amends on the playing field. After pounding Holy Cross, 31-14...
Letters from our readers
Summing Up Summers The article on, and interview with, Lawrence Summers (Summers in Summary, September-October, page 56) should be required...
Bigger Biology
When a first draft of the human genome was sequenced in 2001, biology suddenly became much bigger. The genomethree billion DNA letters long...
The Business of Teaching
Harvard Business School (HBS) classes are taught interactively by the case methodand by the professors themselves, who also do the grading...
Zane Grey—profile of a novelist
Brief life of an American original: 1872-1939
Grolier Reincarnated
Tucked into a single room behind a window in Harvard Square, the Grolier Poetry Book Shop is to the world of bookselling what La Sainte...
Well Done
The Harvard Alumni Association Awards were established in 1990 to recognize outstanding service to Harvard University through alumni...
"Unsales" Pitches
These days, prescription drug ads bombard the consumer at every turn. Even so, the $4 billion spent annually on direct-to-consumer...
Fleet Policy
Her mother says that Lindsey Scherf 08 was running as soon as she could walk; she might almost have sprinted out of the womb. Given her current...
An Allston Metamorphosis?
Harvard's first science complex in Allston will be big by any measure. One thousand people will work in a facility designed as four buildings...
Adam Kirsch interviews Seamus Heaney
Adam Kirsch, in New York, interviewed Seamus Heaney, in Ireland, by fax in mid September. Kirsch: When I was a student in one of your...