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Sommersemester
It is week 3 of my Sommersemester at the Freie Universität in west Berlin and finallyfinallyI am hitting my stride. “In...
Commencement Confetti
NOBLE BEAST Professional bomb-sniffer Tara, a two-year-old golden/lab/vizsla from Holland, made organizers breathe easier by checking out...
Aftershocks
In the wake of its March 15 vote that it “lacks confidence” in his leadership (see “At Odds,” May-June, page 55), the...
Unsound Sleep
The National Sleep Foundation’s 2005 survey found that 75 percent of American adults experience symptoms of a sleep problem at least a few...
Scientific Ambitions
Preliminary land-use plans for campus development in Allston have yet to be subjected to public review and comment (see “Allston Options:...
Chapter & Verse
Mike Kempson requests a source for the following exchange, possibly from an old poem: “It was just the other day that the Gray Swan sailed...
Foreign Service
Military physicians (left to right) Eldon Bell, Miguel Palos, Robert Yarrish, and (below) Graham Hoffman Courtesy of Miguel Palos...
The Exemplars
Philip Keene Photograph by Jim Harrison Bertha Offenbach Fineberg Photograph by Jim Harrison The oldest graduates of Harvard and...
Also Heard
[T]he fourth and last thing that I learned at Harvard Business School, and the thing that may be most important to the people here today, is to...
Harvard news shorts
University news of the past two months
Mad for Degas
In 1911 the little Fogg Art Museum mounted the only one-man museum exhibition to occur during his lifetime of works by Hilaire-Germain-Edgar...
Allston Options: Up for Discussion
Calling “effective transportation” the “most critical” of the issues Harvard faces as it plans for expansion into...