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Life at the Epicenter

Bioethicists like R. Alta Charo ’79 operate where scientific innovation butts up against cultural ethos. As a professor of law and...

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard Local,

In her Senior English Address, “Perfect Imperfection,” Alicia J. Menendez ’05, whose concentration was women, gender, and...

Honor Roll

Philip Fisher Howard Georgi Rose Licoln / Harvard News Office Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office Margo I. Seltzer Lino Pertile...

Freud's Guesswork on Dreams

One of Sigmund Freud’s great complaints about his mistreatment in life was that although he won a literary award for his famous book The...

Maxine Kumin

On Arts First weekend, poet Maxine Kumin ’46, A.M. ’48, a Bunting Institute Fellow in 1963, became the eleventh recipient of the...

Norse Calypsos, et Cetera

The polymathic Nicholas D. Humez ’69—silversmith, author, banjoist, classical philologist, composer of operas and string quartets...

The Patent Trap

Patents—a form of governmental protection to prevent ideas from being sold or used by someone else without permission—have a long and...

by Garrett M. Graff

Cambridge Scholars

Four seniors have won Harvard Cambridge scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2005-2006 academic year. Physics concentrator...

Splendid Spring Sports

Crew The heavyweight men won their third consecutive national title at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) regatta in Camden, New...

A Mouse, and Other Surprises

“In this perilous, suffering world and in this deeply troubled nation,” as John Lithgow ’67, Ar.D. ’05, characterized...

Enlivening Science

An expressed aim of the curriculum review is to assure College graduates’ scientific literacy in the twenty-first century. Summarizing the...

Live a Little

The West Side Lounge is a fun little restaurant. On a Thursday night, the waitress greeted with a genuine smile—as if she’s glad we...

by Nell Porter-Brown