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Marion Coppelman Epstein Photograph by Jim Harrison Although rain washed out the traditional alumni parade, Marion Coppelman Epstein...
Harvard's Financial Aid Failings
"For those moving from warmer climates, inexpensive winter clothing can be purchased at local second-hand clothing stores, consignment...
Harvard Girl
For the last two years, Harvard junior Yiting Liu has been at the epicenter of a new phenomenon in her native China: celebrity status for Ivy...
Scenes from Commencement
Jim Harrison Seniors are led to Baccalaureate by class marshals (from left) Daniel Droller, of Eliot House and Pelham, New York; first...
Honor Roll
Prized Professors From left to right: Stephen Rosen, William Todd III, Jeremy Bloxham, and Marc Hauser Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office...
Owen Wister
One hundred years ago, the Macmillan Company published The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains, a novel about an unnamed Wyoming cattleman. The...
Chapter & Verse
Robert Boardman seeks a source for the assertion that, if political and military leaders are from different backgrounds, "the armies will be...
Cambridge 02138
BELLUM AMERICANUM Never have I read anything as arrogant as Stephen Peter Rosen's "The Future of War and the American Military"...
An Asia Expert for Arts and Sciences
The brief, intense search for a new dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) concluded May 20, when President Lawrence H. Summers...
After 43 Years
In her early days at the Harvard Alumni Association, Joanne K. Woods not only worked closely with the board of directors, she took care of...
"Veritas"
President Lawrence H. Summers took stock of the ever wetter, colder weather as the Commencement afternoon exercises proceeded and decided to...
Government's Deficit Spending
A deficit at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) that in October was projected to reach $2.9 million for the academic year 2001-2002 (see...