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From Elite to Everyman

Genetic endowments aside, an elite endurance athlete and the average daily walker are, in their adaptations to exercise, different less in kind...

Family Ties

They're the people who knew you first. For years, they were probably the people who knew you best. But once you're in college, and for a while...

Harvard@Home: Four New Programs

Harvard@Home, the University-wide initiative for putting learning on-line, has introduced several new programs. They are: "The Process of...

Military Recruiting: The Lawsuits

In the wake of new military recruiting practices on campus, sharp differences of opinion continue to fuel exchanges about the right way to...

Flame and Ashes

Harvard's plans to complete its "North Campus" in Cambridge took an important step forward when the University reached an agreement...

You Play the Mall Developer

Teachers of negotiation use role simulations, powerful learning devices that help students internalize theory in a compelling way. I play the...

Twigs Bent, Trees Go Straight

In a discussion of criminal-justice issues, former U. S. Attorney General Janet Reno once stated that the life trajectory for most criminals was...

The Imbalance of Power

For more than 50 years, the transatlantic partnership between the United States and Europe has been the linchpin of this country's foreign...

Snug in Seal

The inhabitants of Japan's northernmost island enjoy cold that pierces and snow that blows, but the indigenous Ainu woman who possessed this...

Maestro of the Mat

Last December, at the Cliff Keen Invitational wrestling tournament in Las Vegas, something unusual happened: Jesse Jantzen '04 lost a bout. In...

by Craig Lambert

New from Lewis and Clark

Two collections assistants at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology were making an inventory of objects in the Oceania storerooms last...

Michael Ignatieff

Unlike the world, the Kennedy School office of Michael Ignatieff, Ph.D. '76, is immaculately tidy. "It's complete illusion," he...