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A Woodsplint Basket

Displayed in the "Hall of the North American Indian" at Harvard University's Peabody Museum, the basket looks like many others made in...

The Zakim Center for Integrated Therapies

The Leaonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, the new span connecting Boston and Charleston, honors the memory of a Boston citizen with a gift fro...

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Websites www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/html/busjobsearch. This comprehensive site for Harvard's Office of Career Services lists career advice...

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Malls on the Median

On a sunny Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles, a woman buys a funky '50s-era dress. A recent immigrant from El Salvador sells a dozen blue-corn...

Law School Locale

Harvard Law School (HLS) is carefully weighing the pros and cons of building a new campus for itself in Allston. A "locational...

Living Wage: Next Stage

On the last day of January, President Lawrence H. Summers announced that the University would adopt the "living wage" recommendations...

Mayr at Harvard

In 1953, a decade after the triumph of his Systematics and the Origin of Species, Harvard attracted Mayr--by then the world's leading...

"Bobby" Jones

Jones connects at the Flintridge Golf Club in Los Angeles in 1931. Photograph courtesy Sidney L. Matthew. Photomontage by Bartek Malysa...

by Craig Lambert

Cortices in C Minor

This is your brain on music: lighting up all over the place. Mark Jude Tramo, M.D., Ph.D. '98, an assistant professor of neurology at Harvard...

Harvard Calendar

SPECIAL. Skip on over to the annual CityStep show, performed by Cambridge fifth- and sixth-graders at Sanders Theatre on April 12 and 13. For...

A Woman's Studies

I can't explain what I study at Harvard. I am a women's-studies concentrator. After a two-year stint of floating through five large academic...

by Arianne R. Cohen