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The Senior Marshals

Photograph by Stu Rosner The senior marshals, looking ahead to Commencement 2003, are: (clockwise from top left) first marshal...

Open Book

Poet and literary figure John Hall Wheelock '08 (1886-1978) was an editor at Charles Scribner's Sons for 46 years, working with Hemingway...

HAA News

Comings and Goings Local Harvard clubs host numerous lectures and social gatherings throughout the year. What follows is a list of some of the...

Finding Fuller

I've got a crush on Hank Fuller — and who can blame me? Toby "Hank" Fuller Jr. worked his way up from the junior-varsity football...

by Phoebe Kosman

Being "of Harvard"

One year after the release of The Women's Guide to Harvard comes The Black Guide to Life at Harvard, compiled by the publications chairs of the...

Living History

We create ourselves out of the stories we tell about our lives, stories that impose purpose and meaning on experiences that often seem random...

by Drew Gilpin Faust

Best Friend Bests Chimp

How domestication allows animals to communicate with humans 

by Christopher Reed

HAA News

Your Vote Counts Ballots for Overseer and for elected director of the Harvard Alumni Association will arrive in mid April and must be returned...

Legacy at Law

Reflecting on his 14-year tenure, ending June 30, as dean of Harvard Law School (HLS), Robert C. Clark discerns three distinct periods. In the...

Brevia

On Diversity As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments this spring on the University of Michigan's race-conscious admissions policies...

What Causes Cancer

J. Michael Bishop, M.D. '62, is a self-described inveterate baseball fan and inadvertent microbiologist. His sports aspirations have been...

"It's all shrouded in protective language."

WINNIE LI '00 Age 24, London. Fledgling film producer Winnie Li '00 Photograph by Stu Rosner How do you meet people? "I don't...