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Waiting to Inhale

Extreme sports usually mean speed, danger, or spectacular stunts—things like snowboarding, skateboarding, rock climbing. They may reach...

Winter Sports

Basketball The women’s team (7-11, 3-2 Ivy) had a bumpy start against non-Ivy opponents, but took out Yale, Columbia, and Cornell, all by...

A Saudi Prince's Controversial Gift

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdul-aziz Alsaud, reportedly the richest member of the Saudi royal family and head of the investment firm Kingdom...

Darren Higgins

Remember the couple of hot dogs in your fridge that you appear to think are immortal? As the dogs lurk there for week after week, precooked and...

Games of Trust and Betrayal

“People care not only about outcomes, but about how outcomes came to be,” says associate professor of public policy Iris Bohnet of...

Mary Ingraham Bunting

When a group of Radcliffe students in the early 1960s complained to Mary Ingraham Bunting about the Harvard English department’s...

Young Bernstein in Boston

The leaders of a spring seminar and fall exhibit and conference on Leonard Bernstein ’39 seek firsthand information about the musician in...

Challenges to Harvard’s President: An Update

Developments since the confrontational Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting following the announcement of the forthcoming resignation of Dean William C. Kirby...

Summers to Step Down

At the confrontational Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting following the announcement of the forthcoming resignation of Dean William C. Kirby, faculty members criticized...

Harvard in the Olympics

Rarely will you hear a former Olympic and National Hockey League player use the word “fungible” twice within a few minutes, but C.J. Young ’90 did exactly that...

A Report on the Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) convened in University Hall on Tuesday, February 7, its first meeting of the spring term, with discussion of the undergraduate curriculum...