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Efficient Taxation of Income

In June 2001, President George W. Bush signed the Economic Growth and Tax Relief and Reconciliation Act into law, initiating a 10-year program...

Chapter & Verse

Herbert Allard requests a source for "...dry clashed the harness on the barren walls...." He takes harness to mean armor.   Peter Roberts...

Hertzberg on the Record

The following is an extended sampling of writing by Hendrik Hertzberg '65, staff writer for the New Yorker, "...where he has since become the most stylish liberal political essayist in America...

War and Peace at Memorial Church

"Educational benefactors make a vital contribution to world peace," said Eric Anderson, provost of Eton College, England, who delivered the...

Tear Down

Ascending a ramp of rubble, a hydraulic excavator tears down the highest walls of what was once Coolidge Hall. Photographs by Jim...

The Power of Negative Thinking

Doing science is always more fun when your predictions prove true and your experiments shine. Positive results are satisfying, significant, even...

Milan in the Back Bay

It was a fluke—not happenstance, but the fish—that epitomized our visit to Via Matta, the stylish new restaurant across the street...

by Nell Porter-Brown

Doctors Abroad

Physicians Glen Crawford '80 and Susan Abkowitz Crawford '80 have practiced medicine all over the world. The orthopedic surgeon and the...

Chimpanzees and the Law

Jane Goodall, renowned primatologist, discusses the illegal animal trade

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Winter Sports

Women's Ice HockeyBy early December, the icewomen (7-1, 4-0 ECAC) were ranked first in the nation. Powered by recent Olympians Jennifer...

A Reischauer Returns

The newest member of the President and Fellows of Harvard College (as the Corporation, the University's executive governing board, is formally...

Evelynn M. Hammonds

Evelynn M. Hammonds Photograph by Stu Rosner She grew up in Atlanta, got dual undergraduate degrees from Spelman College in physics...