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Empires of the Mind
Rudenstine outlined an international agenda in his afternoon address
A Life's Study
Redirection, readjustment, rejuvenation: continuing education can offer it all.
Cyberholics Anonymous
If Freud was right, and jokes do satisfy repressed needs, that might explain the unexpected success of the prank Ivan Goldberg pulled in 1995...
Changes to the Core Curriculum
At its May meeting, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted to add a new course requirement in Quantitative Reasoning to the Core Curriculum.
Rethinking Tenure
Toward new templates for academic employment
Carved in Stone at the Post Office
Brian Burrell's The Words We Live By: The Creeds, Mottoes, Oaths, and Pledges That Have Shaped Our Nation (Free Press, $26) is an engaging omnium-gatherum…
Voltage, Cheap and Dirty
The expanding Harvard universe
Phenomenal Surfaces
A pioneering effort to illuminate the nature of things