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The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard
In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.
Harvard's William Julius Wilson and others on long-term unemployed
Paths toward employment for low-income blacks and Latinos
Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy studies race
Randall Kennedy probes the “variousness” of charged racial issues.
The Big Science of Building a Giant Telescope
Harvard professors are among those building the Giant Magellan Telescope, with hope for new discoveries.
Harvard's Bruce Western advocates new prison, rehabilitation policies
Sociologist Bruce Western rethinks incarceration in America
Harvard Law's Michael Klarman on gay-marriage litigation and politics
On activism, litigation, and social change in America
Alexander Hamilton Rice, Amazon explorer, by Mark Plotkin
Brief life of an Amazon explorer: 1875-1956
The passion for procedures to fix ailing arteries and hearts may be misguided
How gaps in medical knowledge affect matters of the heart
by Alice Park
Ted Kaptchuk of Harvard Medical School studies placebos
An ingenious researcher finds the real ingredients of “fake” medicine.
Irna Phillips, soap opera’s single mother, by Lynn Liccardo
Brief life of soap opera’s single mother: 1901-1973
Fashion professionals from Harvard
Designers, models, and merchants tint the fashion industry Crimson.