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"Teaching yoga is just pure pleasure."

Deborah Cohen views her job, in large part, as front-line preventative care. "A lot of the ailments that take people to the doctor's office...

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A Victory for Bach (and Biggs)

The great concert organist—and sometime radio-broadcast star—E. Power Biggs brought fame to himself and limelight to Harvard on an...

Debunking the Double

On the third day of my eight-week stint as a summer-school proctor, the mother of one of my charges reminded me of the difficulties that can...

by Phoebe Kosman

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PYRAMID BUILDERSI read withgreat interest "Who Built thePyramids?" by Jonathan Shaw (July-August, page 42), describingMark Lehner's...

Diggin' It: Summer in Cambridge

Expansion of Harvard's Cambridge campus continued this summer as the University built what will be its largest underground space: a subterranean...

River Mid-Rise

The strong geometry of Machado and Silvetti Associates' contemporary architecture rises 15 stories in a modern interpretation of Harvard housing...

History of the Little Red Flag

Frederick Plummer, A.B. 1888, who attended 59 consecutive Harvard-Yale games before his death in 1949, customarily carried a certain small...

Yesterday's News

1923 The College admits 940 applicants, its largest class ever. For the first time, those in the top seventh of their preparatory schools have...

"You have to be flexible."

As a social epidemiologist, Joseph West, 32, has focused on children, especially those from poor and/or minority communities. "My root...

Profile of Harvard sports enthusiast William “Bill” Markus ’60

At Harvard sporting events, Bill Markus '60 is nearly as ubiquitous as crimson jerseys. For the past two seasons, he's been in the stands for...

Tupperware: The Movie

Filmmakers have so delighted in debunking the idyllic myth of 1950s America that exposing the era's seamier side has almost developed into its...