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The Way Forward
What can Harvard learn from the administration of Lawrence H. Summers—cut short of its expected duration, and short of achieving many of...
Zen Brains
One day, mental exercise may join physical exercise on Americans’ to-do lists and among their doctors’ recommendations. So says a...
Oh, Happy Day
On Commencement day they usher elderly alumni into the Tree Spread, point out empty seats to parents with their wooden batons, and beam...
Love in the Last Act
Some days it went like this: Lil: We're looking at a three-year-old. Things that people are doing for us. How do you feel about it? Elinor: I...
Precedent-Setting Presidential Search
The search for a successor to President Lawrence H. Summers will involve expanded outreach to the Harvard community. In a March 30 news release...
"A Unique Experience"
Even as a first-year graduate student, I knew that Aldous Huxley’s novels would be my dissertation subject. Harvard didn’t share my...
Fueling Our Future
Our demand for energy, on which we depend for health and prosperity, rises all the time: oil and natural gas to heat our homes; electricity for...
Gender Gains
In the wake of last year’s upheaval over appointing women to professorships in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and the challenges...
Off the Shelf
Who the Hell Are We Fighting? The Story of Sam Adams and the Vietnam Intelligence Wars, by C. Michael Hiam (Steerforth Press, $25.95)...
Birthday Bash
Krokodiloes old and new celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of Harvard’s oldest a cappella group with a concert on March 17. Below...
Yet More Expansion?
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Has Harvard staked out another new campus? On February 2...
Track Coach Haggerty Retires
Frank Haggerty ’68, head coach of men’s and women’s cross-country and track and field since 1982 and assistant coach for seven...