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Riverside Rezoned
It was June 1970 when Saundra Graham and other Riverside neighborhood activists stormed the stage at Harvard's Commencement, demanding...
Kenneth S. Rogoff
Kenneth S. RogoffPhotograph by Jim HarrisonAs the American under-21 chess champion, Kenneth S. Rogoff decided to "miss most of the last two...
The Visit to Abraham
The Lord appeared to him [Abraham] at the oak-trees of Mamre, as he was sitting near the door of his tent during the hot part of the day. He...
The Deficit Danger
At the time of the last presidential election campaign, four years ago, the government was running a sizable budget surplus. That surplus...
An Understanding Eye
The thrill Amanda Lumry '99 felt when she inspected her first roll of pictures in second grade has never changed: "I still marvel...
On Mathematical Imagination by Barry Mazur
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, said Shakespeare, are of imagination all compact. He forgot the mathematician, whose daily concerns are...
From Courtroom to Comedy Club
"I was on the subway recently," says Karen Bergreen '87. "There was a little boy crying. I thought, 'What can I do?' I felt awful. Then I...
“People Who Look like You”
Sitting on a radiator in a Science Center corridor, Deborah A. Batts '69, J.D. '72, who is U.S. district judge for the Southern District of New...
Neuroscience News
Harvard's emerging Center for Systems Neuroscience got a double boost in late fall: the appointment of its first director and the approval by...
DNA as Data
When George McDonald Church arrived at Harvard in 1977, nine out of 10 biologists did research without touching a computer. They wrote journal...
News from Harvard@Home
Harvard@Home, the University-wide initiative for putting learning on-line, offers several new programs for 2004. They include: *Diana L. Eck...
Harvard Calendar
THEATER. The American Repertory Theatre presents Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream from January 10 through February 28 at the Loeb...