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In the Streets and in the Studio
Ben Shahn liked to tell the story of being introduced to someone as "Shahn the painter" and being asked if he was any relation to "Shahn the...
Banner Day
"Return to Harvard Day," on Wednesday, April 19, offers alumni of all College classes, and this year's reunion classes, their spouses, and...
Chapter & Verse
Janice Weiss asks where Benjamin DeMott may have written that literature is “an elegant clockworks that tells no time.”  ...
Killer Killar
Last year, the second most impressive thing about Joey Killar's season was how much of the time he spent not wrestling. Competing at 165...
Wild Minds
In the summer of 1980, while doing primate research at a tourist spot in Florida, Marc D. Hauser had an unusual encounter. A female spider...
University People
Doctor in the House Harvey V. Fineberg, Harvard’s provost, began a medical leave and underwent surgery December 16 for what was described...
A Magnificent Acquisition
Piet Mondrian's Composition with Blue, Black, Yellow, and Red is now part of the University's art collections, thanks to a gift from the family...
The Poet of Needle Park
The Poet of Needle Park: He is surely the most famous Harvard-educated heroin addict, and one of the most famous addicts anywhere: William...
Name Game
The University Campaign is one for the record books: by far exceeding its $2.1-billion goal, it became the most successful such effort ever...
Passover Story
Few people find a mission while cleaning house, but that is what happened to Saul Touster ’46, J.D. ’48. One day in 1996, as he was...
Daniel Donoghue reviews Seamus Heaney's "Beowulf" translation
The morning after Beowulf wrenches off Grendel’s armthus purging the Danish royal hall of its unwelcome visitorKing...
Brevia
Quitting Kirkland House Continuing a generational change among leaders of the undergraduate Houses, Kirkland master Donald H. Pfister and...