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Comings and Goings
Harvard clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual gatherings. Following is a list of University-affiliated speakers appearing at local...
An Unconstrained Curriculum
The College curriculum of the future has begun to come into focus, as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this autumn started to discuss...
Brevia
Another Nobelist Thomas C. Schelling University of Maryland Joining Mallinckrodt professor of physics Roy J. Glauber ’45, Ph.D...
Them Apples
Images courtesy of the Harvard University Art Museums In Manhattan in 1958, the year he graduated from Princeton, Frank Stella assembled the...
President and Polity
President Lawrence H. Summers e-mailed a multi-thousand-word “letter to the community” on November 7, subsequently published as a...
Off the Shelf
The Talking Ape: How Language Evolved, by Robbins Burling, Ph.D. ’58 (Oxford University Press, $29.95). A persuasive, urbane, and...
Light Blitzes Plaque
Fast forward a decade and imagine what a drugstore shelf might hold. A pill containing an entire day’s nutrients? A gadget that confers...
Old-Fashioned Warmth
To walk into the rambling, 1849 Greek Revival farmhouse at Sunday Farm in Middlefield, Massachusetts, is to enter an earlier century. On a cold...
“The Genius of the Balafon”
In West Africa, Neba Solo, born Souleymane Traoré in 1969, is often called “the genius of the balafon,” says Ingrid T...
The Beauty of Beans
Viola Canales ’79, J.D. ’89, grew up in a close-knit, highly religious community in the south Texas border town of McAllen, when it...
Photograph by Jim Harrison
To see her on the fencing strip is to witness an almost terrifying release of aggression. With lightning speed, a blur of lunges, parries, and...
At Long Last, CGIS
On a warm November evening, more than a decade after a study committee first envisioned it, the completed Center for Government and...