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Beyond the Budget

"It was a very simple year." So Elizabeth C. Huidekoper, vice president for finance, characterizes Harvard's getting and spending for...

Harvard Then and Now: The Decade Detailed

Value of Endowment, Average Salaries, and other statistics; 1990 and 2000.

John Harvard

John Harvard's name is so familiar that it may come as a surprise to learn how much of a man of mystery he is. Most graduates of the university...

Fixing Medieval Wine

Every year, French wholesalers airlift cases of Beaujolais Nouveau worldwide so that wine shops can start selling bottles to the public on the...

"Adam Smith" meets Ji Chaozhu

“Adam Smith” meets Mao’s translator in a class of ’52 get-together.

by Geoffrey A. Fowler

Cambridge 02138

WOMANLESS HISTORY As a recipient of a generation's worth of alumni mailings, I've known in an intuitive way that Harvard as an institution has a...

Brevia

Animal-Rights Threats Opposition to the use of animals in biomedical research (the subject of this magazine's January-February 1999 cover story)...

Dedicating Maxwell Dworkin

How is it that a famous liberal-arts center like Harvard, home to what is arguably the world's first computer, could also be called the...

Cities and Suburbs

Can our cities be made livable for all kinds of citizens, or are they condemned to be office ghettoes and entertainment zones used by suburban...

Chapter & Verse

James McCourt seeks a source for "The problem with the 'melting pot' theory is that those on the bottom get burned and the scum rises to...

Sweet Finale

Finale restaurant review

Grumbling among the Woodwinds

Lush notes from your violin resound through gilt-edged halls. Hushed audiences listen as you enthrall them with Beethoven or Prokofiev. Hundreds...