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Chapter & Verse
Herbert Allard requests a source for "...dry clashed the harness on the barren walls...." He takes harness to mean armor. Peter Roberts...
Best Friend Bests Chimp
How domestication allows animals to communicate with humans
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...
The Founders
If you were told that an emeritus professor at Harvard had decided to stitch together several of his recent public lectures and publish them as...
Cambridge 02138
ONLY IN AMERICA "Simple Hosts" (January-February, page 48) was most enlightening.Author Patricia Thomas achieved a journalistic tour...
A Rush from Olympus
This isn't their first team effort, not by a long shot. "For so many years, they have spent so much time on the same sheet of ice together that...
Iron and Silk
Half an academic year into his service as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), William C. Kirby uses his first annual letter to set...
Harvard's Hammond
Mason Hammond '25, G '32, LL.D. '94, Pope professor of the Latin language and literature emeritus, died on October 13, 2002, four months short...