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Karts Get Some Respect

Stephan Wilkinson ’58, automotive editor at Popular Science, is said to be a longtime expert on the way men entertain themselves when no...

HAA Clubs Committee Awards

The HAA Clubs Committee presents two annual awards for contributions to Harvard clubs. Recipients of the 2005 Outstanding Club Contribution...

Sex and the Inner City

The sexual and romantic habits of urban black males have long been a subject of scrutiny. Forty years ago, the Moynihan Report—The Negro...

Campaigning, College-Style

The Undergraduate Council (UC) unveiled 24-hour Lamont Library access and fatter grants for student groups early in the fall, but soon...

John Simon

John Simon Peter North Critic John Simon ’46, Ph.D. ’59, celebrated for his acerbic reviews in New York...

Capital Costs

The dimensions of Harvard’s current building boom—readily obvious to sidewalk superintendents along Memorial Drive at Western...

Sharing the Wealth

Distributions from the endowment now make up the largest source of Harvard’s operating revenues: $855 million, or 31 percent of University...

The People's Epidemiologists

In the city of Boston—and everywhere else—wealth equals health. If you live in Beacon Hill’s Louisburg Square, which sits in the...

Alumni Colleges

The HAA offers Cambridge forums on South Asia and diplomacy this spring. “South Asia: A Changing World,” on April 22, is cosponsored...

Off the Shelf

Prayer: A History, by Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski, Ph.D. ’84 (Houghton Mifflin, $29.95). He is a senior editor at Parabola, she is a...

Three for the Road

Thanks to Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships, three current Harvard students will do their research in England next year. Senior Jay A.H. Butler...

Money-Manager Compensation

Compensation data for the most highly paid Harvard Management Company (HMC) investment personnel—subject to some sharp criticism in recent...