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Compensation Flap Continued
Further news coverage of the compensation of Harvard Management Company's (HMC) highest-performing portfolio managers, who earned up to $35.1...
Public-health response to gun fatalities: make weapons less lethal
The public-health response to gun casualties: make the weapons less lethal
Chapter & Verse
James MacKillop writes, "The quotation, 'The map appears to us more real than the land' (sometimes misquoted as 'The map appears to be...')...
HAA Leader Seeks Global Outreach
The new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) summarizes the theme of his year-long term in four words: "Participate in...
Heaven, Hell, and Profits
The Protestant Ethicyou probably know the gist of it. Sociologist Max Weber's famous treatise on "the spirit of capitalism"...
Eyes Opened But Averted
I make decisions on a whim, decisions prompted by sudden changes in interest—and subject to immediate retraction once I've recovered sense...
Dispatches from the Front
Interim Iraqi Government minister Nesreen Berwari's phone number, area code 914 (a New Rochelle exchange!), rings in Baghdad, a satellite trick...
Face-lift
Its stacks, reading rooms, and offices already renovated, climate controlled, and rewired for the twenty-first century, the time had come to...
Little Boat, Unsalvaged
Thwarts, chines, ribs mud-caked, this one's deadrise bow is liftedas if by gusts, whitecaps' scud and swat no fear with her. Would she ...
A Different Kind of Triathlete
You know that new activity you've wanted to take up? Maybe it's something eclectic, like cooking Thai food from scratch, souping up old cars...
Quality Care
As I read David Cutler's important new book on how to deal with the nation's most challenging social problem, I kept wanting more. Cutler...