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University People

The care and nurturing of the 3,100 students and 2,200 scholars who come from abroad to study, teach, or hold fellowships at Harvard annually...

Refreshing the Fellows

The President and Fellows of Harvard College, as the executive governing board of the University is officially titled, has returned to full...

Stealing the Catalog along with the Coins

"Incredible as it seems to the uninitiated, there was no overall inventory of the University coins," wrote Professor George M.A. Hanfmann in...

Postscript

In its September-October 1996 issue, Harvard Magazine published "The Millenial Class," a selection of admissions essays submitted by six...

by Geoffrey A. Fowler , Caille Millner

e-bio

Parallel Lives, the now classic multibiography by Phyllis (Davidoff) Rose '64, Ph.D. '70, broke new ground in 1983 by examining the lives of...

High Fashion, Sub-Saharan

The ironies abound: women who can scarcely put food on the table cut elegant figures on city streets. Families who live in rundown concrete...

Winter Wonders

In March, Dora Gyorffy '01 became NCAA national indoor high jump champion ...

Diagnosing Dementia

Millions of Americans live in fear of developing Alzheimer's disease. Yet only a relatively small proportion, surprisingly, ever get an...

WorldÌs Greatest University Takes Heat

World's Greatest University Takes Heat Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, the largest health plan in Massachusetts, having experienced huge losses...

A Better Way to Practice Medicine?

Looking at the relationship between doctor and patient, and the way healthcare is delivered in our country.

Swing Time

The sweet and cool harmonies of Duke Ellington's Mood Indigo: clarinet, muted trombone, and trumpet atop the swingy walking bass of the banjo...

Icon of the Life of the Mind

"Why can't one speak truth sometimes, and call C.E.N. publicly and without apology the infernal old sinner and sham that he is," wrote William...