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Demolish the Food Pyramid

In the wild, animals instinctively find and consume the foods best adapted to their bodies. Not so for humans. Agribusinesses, fast-food chains...

by Craig Lambert

Loaded for Bear

An impressive win at the outset of what will be a slightly truncated season gave grounds for optimism about the football team's Ivy League...

by Bethell, John T

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9-11-2001 The staff of Harvard Magazine shares the horror and grief caused by the terrorist attacks of September 11 against New York City and...

A Divinity Activist

Father J. Bryan Hehir from the start was on loan to Harvard. When he came to teach at the Divinity School and be part of the Weatherhead Center...

"The Adventure of Our Times"

Members of the University community, friends of Harvard from far and wide: we celebrate today a ritual generations old-er than our nation--a...

Christopher Gore

In this spot stood Gore Hall...Built in the year 1838...Named in honor of Christopher Gore...Fellow of the...

Chapter & Verse

>William Coperthwaite seeks the source of "No night for sound, yet from the glen/Come fusillades of frost:/The random shots of frightened...

Shootback Nairobi

Lana Wong '91, who arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, with her British husband in 1996, cannot forget the smell of her first walk through Mathare...

The Table Is Set

For the installation of its twenty-seventh president, Harvard displayed on a stage set up at the front of Tercentenary Theatre various sacred...

Why sleep is important for college students

Early freshman year, in order to experience all that college had to offer, I decided to cut sleep out of my life entirely. Having over-committed...

by Arianne R. Cohen

The Law of Gravity

What goes up indeed comes down. Following the breathtaking 32.2 percent return on investments for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2000, Harvard...

The "Five-foot Shelf" Reconsidered

"On or about December, 1910," Virginia Woolf wrote, "human character changed." Woolf was not referring to a specific event...

by Adam Kirsch