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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 BoozAllen & Hamilton in New York and...
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...
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...
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...
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