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Curl Up with the Cloud-gatherer
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." This spring Harvard University Press publishes the...
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 boomreadily 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...