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The Medicalization of Torture
The revelations of torture and prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib facility in Iraq may not be over; the Army's Fay Report and the independent...
Harvard Goes South (of the Border)
Harvard Goes South (of the Border)Mark your calendars for the Harvard Alumni Association's alumni conference in Mexico City on March 1-2, 2005...
Endowment Gains: Last Hurrah?
Very strong returns on investment boosted Harvard's endowment $3.3 billion last fiscal year, to a new record of $22.6 billion as of June 30...
Aloian Scholars
Aloian ScholarsGina Bruno '04 of Adams House and Darren Morris '04 of Mather House are this year's David Aloian Memorial Scholars. They were to...
The Future of Marriage
When I came to Harvard in 1970, the model for many young people was the wedding in Love Story," recalls Peter J. Gomes, who has performed...
THE Game
The Harvard-Yale football rivalry constitutes a seemingly inexhaustible mine for historians. In The Only Game That Matters (Crown, $24.95)...
The Historian-Autobiographers
Should Harvard be grateful to Henry Adams for establishing a tradition of Harvard-trained historians who have written about their own lives...
University People
Senior Status David B. FithianPhotograph by Michael RodriguezJohn FoxPhotograph by Jim HarrisonEffective September 1, assistant dean of the...
Chapter & Verse
Christopher Monson seeks the author of the truism, "The rectangle is the beginning of aesthetics." Dale Fink would welcome a verifiable...
World's Greatest Taglines?
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by."A friend who works at the Berklee College of Music in Boston tells...
Romance Heroine
Harvard alumni follow their interests to unpredictable places. Julie Cotler Pottinger '92 earned a degree in the history of architecture and...
Harvard faculty suggests revisions to the undergraduate curriculum
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean William C. Kirby has outlined the work on revising the undergraduate curriculum that he envisions...