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Tough Love
Editor's Note: Nicholas Dawidoff '85 has just published The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World, a richly detailed...
Harvard Calendar
FILM. Following its recent summer tradition, the Harvard Film Archive offers "movies from A to Z" taken from its 6,000-print collection...
NO on a Summer's Eve
One knew, perhaps, that the gas nitric oxide (NO) is a constituent of automobile exhaust and a big player in the formation of smog, and is no...
Harvard overseers
Election Results The membersof the Board of Overseers have elected Thomas S. Williams Jr. '68 theirnew president. He succeeds Richard E...
"Upon The Occasion of Your Graduation"
Althoughlet us be right out front there is nothing gradual about it. Surely your progress has been digestively slow, Has...
Dating at Harvard circa 2002
For the first two years of my college career, I was single. Though I dated a bit, I found the romantic waters of Harvard Yard extremely cold...
Free Speech: Testing
So often was he grilled by the press in the days before he delivered his controversial address, that Zayed M. Yasin '02 prepared a handout of...
In from the Margins
The first radiant spring day formed an auspicious backdrop for President Lawrence H. Summers's first decanal appointment, on April 9. Ellen...
Trafficking in Chance
The dozens of ATM machines lining the entrances to the Mohegan Sun casino don't operate in quite the usual way. If you withdraw $400 in cash...
Off the Shelf
Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, by Catherine Orenstein '90 (Basic Books, $25). Much we need...
Yesterday's News
1937 A 1.2-million-volt x-ray machine has been installed in the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital, a department of the University, to...
Counting the Costs
What would it take to address the financial problems of particularly needy students who want to pursue their graduate or professional education...