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The Tao of Crew
Click-boom-sssshhh. Click-boom-sssshhh --amid the accolades and hardships of academic life, nothing else has so defined my Harvard experience as the desire to cultivate that sound. Click--eight oars drop into the water. Boom--eight oarlocks snap after …
Chapter and Verse
S.L. Zalburg would like to know who said "Know (or "Understand") too much and you're finished for life." Howard Lewis Fink seeks the author of the statement "One cannot be sincere and seem so." John Straub is looking for the source of the line …
Dividing Lines
These books could not be more timely. In the fifth year of his presidency, after months of internal White House debate, President Clinton has finally launched an effort to fashion a legacy on "racial reconciliation." The centerpiece seems to be a …
A Hundred Million Nasty Surprises
An estimated 100 million land mines sit just beneath the earth's surface, waiting for something to come along and supply the 10 to 20 pounds of pressure required for detonation. A large animal could do it; so could a falling branch or a rock set loose by …
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. As a gag on fellow Net-browsing shrinks, the Manhattan psychiatrist cooked up a make-believe …
The Midlife Calm
You're a man in your forties and you are having an epiphany. Suddenly you see that your life has been meaningless. You take transformative action. You quit your job, buy a red Porsche, start growing your hair, and move to California with a woman notably …
Tokyo Disney
Eurodisney was greeted in Paris as a "cultural Chernobyl," but that may be nothing more than French chauvinism. For contrast, consider that Tokyo Disneyland's opening in 1983 was later hailed as nothing less than "the most important cultural event of the …
Voltage, Cheap and Dirty
Call it the high-voltage version of the law of unintended consequences. As states and the federal government deregulate power companies, breaking century-old monopolies on electricity generation and sales, these utilities will no longer service captive …
The Glass Animals
Once seen, not forgotten. so it is with Harvard's wondrous glass flowers. Droves of visitors--120,000 annually--depart marveling at the unique collection of 4,000 models of plants made by Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka in Germany from 1887 to 1936 and …
McCordiana
As readers of this page may know, the originator of the "College Pump" was the late David T. W. McCord '21, whose death at the age of 99 is noted in the Alumni and the Obituaries within this issue. In 1940 McCord stepped in as acting editor of the Harvard …
Attacking Asthma
In William Golding's Lord of the Flies , the Cassandra-like character called Piggy has asthma that renders him breathless, helpless ("'My auntie told me not to run,' he explained, 'on account of my asthma'"), and ridiculed. But as sufferers know, asthma …
Cambridge 02138
ERRORS AND AMPLIFICATIONS Because our printer made a mistake in manufacturing the May-June issue, many readers who should have received the edition containing class notes and obituaries (pages 76A-P) did not. Those pages have been reprinted and mailed to …
World’s Fair
"I am the opposite of a cynic about law and lawyers," said New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis '48, Nf '57, during his Law School Class Day speech on Wednesday, June 4. "I am a romantic. I think your profession has made this country what it is at its …
From Lonely to Alone
Until the night before I left for winter break my first year, Harvard was enchanted. The people were winged, the ideas were utopian, the Yard was sylvan bliss. But that night, Harvard gave up another side of itself: its loneliness. I could not sleep. The …
A Look at Institutional Ethics
An executive from General Electric once told Barbara Toffler, a partner in Arthur Andersen & Company who has worked in business ethics for 20 years, that he didn't understand what philosophers wrote about, and didn't think philosophers had any idea what …