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Tough Love
Harvard and other celebrated research universities “succeed, better than ever, as creators and repositories of knowledge,” declares...
Decanal Duo
Kathleen McCartney Photograph by Dina Konovalovia/A Dream Picture Kathleen McCartney, Lesser professor in early childhood development...
Gallery
Commencement’s first product placement, managed by new doctors of dental medicine Prathima Prasanna, of Presque Isle, Maine, and Amy...
Commencement Confetti 2006
Lots of M.B.A.s On Commencement day, Thursday, June 8, Harvard conferred 6,706 degrees and 248 certificates. The College granted 1,641 of these...
Harvard Medalists
The Harvard Alumni Association surprised President Lawrence H. Summers during its annual meeting on June 8 by awarding him a Harvard Medal for...
“Taming” the Rhine
David Blackbourn has an affection for fens and marshes, lush, low-lying polders and high moors of heath and bog. When he leaves his home in...
Graduate School Medalists
Each June, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the...
Off the Shelf
Beach Stones, photographs by Josie Iselin ’84, text by Margaret W. Carruthers (Abrams, $17.95). Here is an international gathering of...
Fleeting Fame
Kaavya Viswanathan’s 15 minutes of fame proved unusually nasty and brutish as well as short. Publicity profiles anticipating the...
Israel and Academia
On March 23, the London Review of Books published a long essay on “The Israel Lobby,” by Harrison distinguished service professor of...
International Investments
Harvard’s global ambitions to study and know more about the world, and to send more students out into it, were triply boosted at the end...
Musical Activist
Mainstream pop culture churns out plenty of rockers and rappers, but Derrick N. Ashong ’97, G ’08, is plugged into a different...