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Medicine Minus Mythmaking
… New Directions has reissued The Doctor Stories , which collects medical writings by … poems, and an autobiographical excerpt—to get at the heart of his dual career in letters and in medicine. When the … him on the path to training as a physician—and long-time professor at Harvard. (Among the sharp wisdom his mentor gave …
Issue: November-December 2018
Bill Jaeger
… with a degree in Russian studies, he planned to work at the Russian Research Center and then go to graduate school. But with workers in his office and across Harvard unionizing,he was drawn in.“I saw … now live in Arlington, where he enjoys watching European professional soccer with their two sons and plays …
Issue: July-August 2013
Chapter & Verse
… Pat Donovan hopes that someone can provide her with the original source of the phrase “…and she wiped the ambassador’s nose”; the … one day. Dorothy Richardson requests an identification of the poetic fragment with which William Dunlap closes his …
Issue: January-February 2009
The Enterprise Research Campus, Part Two
… Tishman Speyer, the development partner that is building an Enterprise Research Campus (ERC) in Allston on property leased … from Harvard, took the first step toward construction of the second phase (phase B) of that project on April 16. …
A Gift from Iwo Jima
… The New York Times recently profiled Franklin W. Hobbs III ’46, M.B.A. ’52, who as a young soldier at the Battle of Iwo Jima retrieved an envelope from the body of a …
Chapter and Verse
… much and you're finished for life." Howard Lewis Fink seeks the author of the statement "One cannot be sincere and seem so." John … about the origins of "Education should be like the moonrise, perceptible not in progress but in result," and "Ten …
Throughways for Wildlife
… In the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Interstate 70 cuts from … biologists call the Mountain Corridor—a 144-mile-wide swath of mixed habitat flowing north and south between Denver and …
Issue: May-June 2011
Harvard Presidential Search Advances
… As the committee consisting of members from the Harvard Corporation and Board of Overseers pursues the search for the successor to …
Social Innovation Challenge
… social entrepreneurs. According to her e-mail message to the community, Provost Alan Garber and a panel of faculty experts (not yet announced) will later this month … Faust and organized by Garber and William Sahlman, D’Arbeloff-M.B.A. Class of 1955 professor of business …
Virtual Tumors
… If a single word could describe the diverse disorders collectively known as cancer, it might … be unpredictable . Trying to judge the course and prognosis of this meandering, unforgiving, and frequently fatal … is almost impossible. But Thomas Deisboeck, as director of a pioneering project to “engineer” different kinds of …
Issue: July-August 2009
Chasing Bogeys
… Few golf books have emerged from the unlikely golfing haven of Duluth, Minnesota; in fact, A Beautiful Friendship: The Joy of Chasing Bogey Golf (Calyx Press Duluth, …
Issue: May-June 2009
Branded
… Today . “As Harvard prepares to confer degrees on yet another batch of graduates Thursday, academic experts scratch their heads … institution maintains its reputational dominance in an era of academic parity. But a marketer would understand the …
Issue: November-December 2005
Words Both Hopeful and Fateful
… As Benazir Bhutto ’73 returned to Harvard in 1989 to give the Commencement address and receive an honorary degree, … a half years before she would be freed. But Galbraith wrote of Bhutto's extraordinary life after her time as a political prisoner: In the space of twelve months, beginning in December 1987, she got …
Return to Chanzeaux
… a course, “How To Study A Village,” taught by Dillon professor of the civilization of France Laurence Wylie, an …
Issue: November-December 2011
Cambridge 02138
… Credit Safer ,” May-June, page 34) to expose so much about the credit industry in the space of a normal magazine article. That lenders have been allowed … the abandonment of personal responsibility, I was not surprised to see you run a story depicting borrowers as victims. …
Issue: July-August 2008