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Liberty's Defending Angel

Her noble passion may have sprung from a frustrated appetite: even by Harvard standards, Nadine Strossen '72, J.D. '75, is a voracious reader...

by Craig Lambert

Our Founding Grandfather

Benjamin Franklin, himself a prolific writer of exceptional grace and vigor, would surely be delighted with the vivid accounts of his life that...

America's Stake in the Multilateral World

Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, LL.D. '03, president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000 and now director of Yale's Center for the Study of...

Making the Case

All professional schools face the same difficult challenge: how to prepare students for the world of practice. Time in the classroom must...

Citing Harvard

Although it was not the educational institution directly involved in the affirmative-action cases decided by the Supreme Court on June 23...

Casing the Future

For years, the "technology" of cases remained static. They were written documents consisting of text, tables, and illustrations...

Harvard Calendar

SPECIAL. The Schlesinger Library celebrates its sixtieth anniversary with an all-day conference on "Gender, Race, and Rights in...

Philogynist (I)

He has run for political office, been a professor, published seven books, modeled, and acted in dozens of commercials, but Alexander Karanikas...

Chapter & Verse

Fred Wegener seeks sources for "more given to the arts than to warfare" and "tremors sent below by breezes striking the higher...

Dante the Disruptor

Defenders have attitude, and their mind-set differs sharply from that of players who line up on the other side of the ball. Call it the outlook...

by Craig Lambert

Caveat Caesar

On March 15, 44 B.C., Julius Caesar walked unguarded to the Roman Senate despite his soothsayer's oracular "Beware the ides of March,&quot...

by Harbour Fraser ...

Case Dismissed

When Harvard denied tenure to political theorist Peter Berkowitz, an associate professor of government, in 1998, he filed an internal grievance...