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With a Little Help from Harvard's Friends
On Saturday morning, May 13, the dull gray of the sky over Cambridge brightened the white dogwood beside the Faculty Club, colored more deeply...
A Lifetime with Bach
For some music lovers, it may be a relief when the 250th anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach passes on July 28. Though he has...
The Oldest Graduate
The oldest alumna
The Half-life of Robin and Kim
By now firemen, policemen, and mailmen sound like cultural relics from the 1950s next to the no-nonsense firefighters, police officers, and...
'60s Generation Confronts '90s Protest
Student protests then and now
Distance Learning @Harvard.edu
New technologies, changing demographics, and the emergence of richly funded, Internet-based e-learning ventures may lead to serious upheavals...
What I Read at War
...sed carmina tantum nostra valent, Lycida, tela inter Martia, quantum Chaonias dicunt aquila...
Your Friend, Fidel
Jorge I. Domínguez, Dillon professor of international affairs and director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard...
The Grounds Round
Alain de Vergie '56 finds it entertaining and informative to scan the want ads...
Commencement Address, the Genre
Commencement speeches, according to cartoonist Garry Trudeau, "were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never...
Freewheeling at 50 M.P.H.
Swooping left, then right, now cruising straight ahead at the speed of a fresh gale, then suddenly diving into a hollow and rising up together...
An "Understandable" Complication
A phrase that applies to just about every surgical procedure might be "This is going to get worse before it gets better." Surgeons themselves...