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Design Dean to Step Down
Peter G. Rowe, dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design (GSD) since 1992, announced in October his intention to step down at the end of this...
Film Archive Goes Silver
Recently, a caller from the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna had two questions for Bruce Jenkins, Cavell curator of the Harvard Film Archive: Do...
Final Architect
This story has taken a surprising turn. Blame it on the tomatoes.It started out as a profile of a popular professor, his populous course, and...
Development Doyenne
Much remains to be decided about the scope, themes, and timing of Harvard's next major capital campaign. But this much is already known: "The...
Chapter & Verse
John Glismann would like to learn the source of "Here's to the man who'll take my place when it's time for me to go." John Havelock...
War Stories
Robert T. Tims '47 found the transition between his two worlds in 1945 sudden, dramatic, and disconcerting. "One day I was a beribboned first...
Build It and They Will Hatch
Few of us could build a full-size house without a blueprint, yet birds construct elaborate and painstaking homes using only a beak and, perhaps...
Extracurricular Communities
I think it came to me on a bleak November day, in the middle of an equally bleak economics lecture, as I perched high in the lofty wood...
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...