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Hertzberg of the New Yorker

On a January evening in 1977, at the old New Yorker offices on West 43rd Street, a going-away party was in progress for Hendrik Hertzberg '65, a...

by Craig Lambert

Communication Skills

"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Watching President George W. Bush at the podium, one might...

The Corporation Welcomes Its First Woman

In February 1989, Judith Richards Hope, J.D. '64, became the first woman member of the Harvard Corporation, the University's executive governing...

News from the HAA

Kudos The Harvard Alumni Association's Clubs Committee recognizes publicly those who provide exemplary service to a Harvard club. Now a new...

A-courting They Shall Go

A month before our plans of study came due last May, many of my fellow first-years became frantic. Having to choose our concentrations when we...

by Phoebe Kosman

The Church as Forum

Memorial Church was on several occasions in the fall term the site of strong talk about the conflicts of the time. On October 2 former New York...

Tighter Times

Harvard is not immune to the vicissitudes of the economy. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2002, the University's operations produced a...

Of Rain and Rivers

It was a dark and stormy night. Rain fell steadily on rooftops, down gutters, along streets and sidewalks. It poured into drains, where it...

Harvard Calendar

THEATER. At the Loeb Drama Center, the American Repertory Theatre presents The Children of Herakles, by Euripides, from January 4 to 25, in a...

Community Puppeteer

As a concentrator in visual and environmental studies, Alex Kahn '88 presented a senior thesis that showed off his talent, but also left room...

Life on the Culinary Edge

When Jeffrey L. Steingarten switched careers in 1989, leaving the profession of law to join Vogue magazine as its resident food critic, he had...

Hoops, Eastern European-style

Fittingly, Emina and Haso Peljto had their first date at a basketball game. The Yugoslavian couple married and had two children, both of whom...