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Housing after Randomization
In the annals of undergraduate housing, the graduation of the class of 2001 marked the end of an era. My freshman year, the seniors weren't...
Installation: A Summers Day
Lawrence H. Summers, Ph.D. '82, matriculated formally as Harvard's twenty-seventh president on October 12. The occasion had many of the...
In the Eye of the Storm
Regularly the dismal news streams in from Japan. The "lost decade"--dating from the early 1990s, when the country's seemingly...
Off the Shelf
Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America, by John F. Kasson '66 (Hill and Wang, $26)...
Nabob of the No-huddle
The National Football League (NFL) has had only one head coach with a Harvard degree, but he was an awfully good one. This year, Marv Levy, A.M...
Installation Roistering
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." The first installation of a Harvard president about which we...
Brevia
CONCEIVING CUBISM. The Fogg Art Museum has acquired Georges Braque's La Baie de l'Estaque (Bay of l'Estaque), painted in 1908. Created during...
Ways and Means: Harvard's Wage Debate
In partial response to the "living-wage" sit-in at Massachusetts Hall last spring and demands for a $10.25 hourly minimum wage for the...
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...
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...