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The Community Scholar
Ahhng...ahhng...that strange sound somewhere between a ring and a buzzer announces a fire drill at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. Lines of...
Off the Beaten Track
John Fox, Ph.D. '94, has already had his biography researched and written. His role as a team anthropologist and director of research for an...
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MIGHTY MOSQUITOES, TICKS Reporting on entomologist Andrew Spielman's work and citing his views ("The Landscape Infections,"...
Zigzag Memory Lane
Shortly after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, federal agents began a search for two men seen renting the van used in the attack. One of those...
Ray Charles Plays the "Harvard Club"
The most grandiose structure on the McLean Hospital campus in Belmont, Massachusetts, is Upham Memorial Hall, a brick mansion larger than many...
Back in the Game
In the fall of my freshman year, I arrived in Cambridge with a lot of baggage. The family station wagon was nearly bursting with my hastily...
Spirit of Giving
The University Campaign, concluded at the end of 1999, essentially doubled giving to Harvard, to $400 million or more annually. But remarkably...
Undergraduate Update
Propelled by faculty interest and prodded by Harvard's new president, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) appears to be embarked on an...
Impermanent Art
The darkest recesses of our refrigerators can harbor ghastly things: spoiled milk, moldy bread, putrid fruit. When their odors offend, we...
Ups and Downs with Harvard
Although we are all assembled at this gathering because we have been 25 years at Harvard, today I am privately celebrating 53 years of...
College Cash
Karen Dewolski wants to go to Harvard. She knows she needs top grades, plenty of extracurricular activities, and, of course, the test scores...
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...