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Seeing Biological Systems Whole
Marc Kirschner, one of the world's leading cell biologists, has a new office. He apologizes for a mess that hardly exists -- a microscope and...
Cast Your Ballot
This spring, alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board. Ballots...
Hongkun Park
Hongkun Park Photograph by Stu Rosner "Your brain doesn't run at three gigahertz, believe me," kids professsor of chemistry...
Freezing Out the Forwards
The Harvard athletic department website, a shrine to the accomplishments of Crimson athletes, makes a peculiar boast regarding ice hockey...
Overheated Rhetoric
Michael Crichton '64, M.D. '69, State of Fear (HarperCollins, $27.95). Michael Crichton's State of Fear is less a novel than...
Fertility and Destiny
Current low birthrates among highly educated women pose a challenge to the U.S. economy and may compound existing social problems, says David...
Lessons from the Navajo
In 1968, Lucy Moore '66 accompanied her then-husband, Bob Hilgendorf, J.D. '67, to Chinle--Canyon de Chelly--in the heart of the Navajo Nation...
Comings and Goings
Harvard clubs host lectures, seminars, and social gatherings. Following is a partial list of Harvard-affiliated speakers appearing at local club...
Yesterday's News
1920 The Corporation and Overseers have voted to admit female students to the new Graduate School of Education, which will open its doors in...
Back with a Marshall, Still Strong in the Rhodes
Thomas Wolf Jon Chase / Harvard News Office Melissa Dell Sarah Hill Rose Licoln / Harvard News Office Justin Ide / Harvard News...
The Rebellion of E.E. Cummings
Literary critics have found any number of ways to divide writers into opposing teams. Isaiah Berlin distinguished between...
by Adam Kirsch
Harvard's Googled Library
In agreements announced December 14, the world's largest search engine, Google, undertook to build an on-line reading room to house digital...