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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...
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,"...
Case Dismissed
When Harvard denied tenure to political theorist Peter Berkowitz, an associate professor of government, in 1998, he filed an internal grievance...
Business Brief
To buttress its $500-million capital campaign—and to foster the ethos of more complete disclosure by corporations and other...
The Empty Seat
For as long as I can remember, there has been a man sitting next to me in Row 00 of Section 28 at the Harvard Stadium: Robert D. Hall, class of...
First-hand recollections
Harvard University Sports Information Herman "Gunny" Gundlach '35, Harvard's oldest living football captain "It was just a...
Exploring New Frontiers
For psychiatrists John R. Stein '91 and his wife, Sara Kulleseid, doctoring abroad seemed like a perfect opportunity to work, play, and travel...
"Pure Brit" Finds Second Home at Harvard
The new president of the Harvard Alumni Association, James V. Baker '68, M.B.A. '71, had never been to America before he boarded the SS United...
Off the Shelf
Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil, by Peter Stansky, Ph.D. '61 (Yale University Press, $35). Sir Philip Sassoon (1888-1939), descended...