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Homecoming
The arrangements and itinerary for the election and introduction of Harvard's twenty-seventh president, on Sunday, March 11, hewed to the...
Philanthropy in a New Key
John Sage and Christopher Dearnley weren't like most of their peers at Harvard Business School. Neither had financial training before enrolling...
Fifty Things to Do While YouÌre Here
Time doesn't stand still in Harvard Square, as the past and present views east (left, in 1956 and today) and west (right, in 1946 and...
The Empress of Domesticity
Displaying humor and an insatiable curiousity about the world, Martha Stewart charmed a Sanders Theatre audience. Photograph by Jim...
Compelling evidence of black holes
Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics (CfA) presented data that strongly suggest the existence of an "event horizon"--the black hole's one-way boundary from which nothing, not even light, can escape.
Harvard Backs After-School Initiative
The blue lights of police cruisers flashed outside Allston's Jackson/Mann elementary school on an early spring morning. "What's going on in...
The Source of Human Speed
What is it that makes Michael Johnson, world's fastest human, swifter than a typical man or woman plucked at random from the street?
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Elbow Room
Arts and Sciences dean Jeremy R. Knowles starts his annual letter to faculty colleagues...
From Cybercafes to Classrooms
Virtual reality in the classroom
Conceiving a Curriculum
Despite a perception that it is primarily a boot-camp for corporate careers ...