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Eyes on the Island

Last November, June Carolyn Erlick spent three weeks in Cuba...

Monastic Time/Harvard Time

Monastic Time/Harvard Time Each June for the past six years, Robert Kiely, Ph.D. '62, has been a guest at an Italian monastery for a...

Starting Up at Harvard

Not too long ago, Daniel Saul '95 left his "respectable" job as a management consultant with Booz•Allen & Hamilton in New York and...

by Nell Porter-Brown

The Gated Menace of "Private Cities"

Neighborhoods are the building blocks of a metropolitan area. But neighborhoods are not identical units, such as bricks; quite dissimilar, they...

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Medical Ethics Revisited

Harvard Medical School has decided for now not to liberalize its rules...

Rudenstine Will Step Down

Neil L. Rudenstine, whose service as Harvard's twenty-sixth president began July 1, 1991, announced on May 22 that he would step down at the end...

Ken Miyata

When he died at the age of 32, Kenneth Ichiro Miyata, Ph.D. '80, was one of the most famous fly-fishermen in the world. But even those who had...

by Craig Lambert

Dining with Bogart and Bergman

One talent distinguishes the few chefs who are truly gifted from those who are merely fine cooks: imagination. Take something as simple as that...

"Chinese" Wilson, Shutterbug

The legendary explorer was at home behind the camera. Barging on the seine this summer? Don't forget your plant-hunting gear and your...

Off the Shelf

The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst, by David Nasaw (Houghton Mifflin, $35). When Hearst moved into Matthews Hall in Harvard Yard in...

The Anti-thesis

I've always had difficulty with conclusions. Writing a 101-page senior thesis may have only made my problem worse. I should have heeded the...

by Geoffrey A. Fowler

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