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"Reasonably Good" Fiscal Results

Further progress toward moderating the rate of expense growth, and stable revenue growth, yielded "reasonably good results" for...

The Sweetest Season

Harvard's 35-3 demolition of Yale at the Stadium on November 20 was the crowning moment in a football season of peak performances: a perfect...

Paradise Lost?

Five thousand years ago in the Mesopotamian marshes, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in southern Iraq, the Sumerians began history. They...

by Christopher Reed

Off the Shelf

Bury the Chains: Prophets, Slaves, and Rebels in the First Human Rights Crusade, by Adam Hochschild '63 (Houghton Mifflin, $26.95). A printer, a...

Edward Conlon Blue Blood NYPD

Edward Conlon '87 cruises the streets of the South Bronx in an unmarked car looking out for Angel, an 18-year-old drug dealer suspected in the...

by Nell Porter-Brown

Yesterday's News

1915 Undergraduate protests against beer at class banquets prompt Bulletin editors to note that "the increase of abstinence and temperance...

More Magical Moments in Store

"The single most beautiful and pristine moment of my three years at Harvard Law School (or possibly my entire life) occurred on that frozen...

Pipes's Partner

No study of Daniel Pipes would be complete without a few words about the trenchant Martin Kramer, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near...

Back to School

Christoph H. Schmidt '55 and his wife, Babette, initially retired to their summer home in Cushing, Maine, but after several years, they moved...

by Nell Porter-Brown

How to Cook a Thesis

"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by."The senior thesis, a big chunk of original work, is the culmination...

Down and Out in Paris and Boston

Outgoing North Carolina senator John Edwards wasn't the first person to notice the Second America, which he described in a primary campaign...

Fall Sports Championships

Field HockeyThe stickwomen (11-7, 6-1 Ivy) won a share (with Penn) of their first Ivy title since 1991. The Crimson's 3-1 victory over the...