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The Cult of the Charismatic CEO
In 1997, one of the blue-chip icons of corporate America, AT&T, was in trouble and seeking a new leader. The company was operating in a...
HAA News
Web Sights It may sound counterintuitive to hail an electronic print directory of works of visual art, but the debut of the Harvard University...
Off the Shelf
Racism: A Short History, by George M. Fredrickson '56, Ph.D. '64 (Princeton University Press, $22.95). Clear, crisp, and engaging, this overview...
"Only" a Law School Man
"Ask me what College class I was in," says Harvard Alumni Association president Charles L. Brock, "and I have to admit I don't...
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"Ask me what College class I was in," says Harvard Alumni Association president Charles L. Brock, "and I have to admit I don't...
China Summer
Jinhua, a prefecture composed of eight counties in the middle of Zhejiang Province—six hours by slow train south of Shanghai—is hot...
Of Religious Education and Rotten Cabbage
Pop quiz: Who should be credited with the founding of Harvard College? No, not John Harvard. Try Anne Hutchinson, who was banished to Rhode...
Allston Update
Just two years ago, Harvard seemed flush with investment profits and generous campaign donations. Former president Neil L. Rudenstine had raised...
Harvard Calendar
SPECIAL The thirty-third annual ice-skating exhibition An Evening with Champions, organized by the students at Eliot House, takes place at the...
School CEO
Ever since Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley named Arne Duncan '86 chief executive officer of the city's public schools in June 2001, many...
The Party Line on Flab
If obesity were a symbol of success, the United States would be a boomtown on the frontier of flab. But excess fat isn't a measure of...
Catcher on the Fly
The game's turning point—and perhaps the play that locked up last year's Ivy football title—came with 6:57 left in the third period...