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Caricature of a young man in front of red doors, wearing a green striped sweater.

The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard

In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.

by Constantine Archimedes Valhouli

The undated silhouette above is the only known portrait of Lowell.

Brief life of American textile industry entrepreneur Francis Cabot Lowell

Brief life of an American entrepreneur: 1775-1817

by Dan Yaeger

Inside the National Security Agency’s Threat Operations Center in January 2006, following President George W. Bush’s speech to employees prior to the U.S. Senate hearings on domestic surveillance

Excerpt from "Because It Is Wrong," by Charles and Gregory Fried

Father and son, lawyer and philosopher debate torture, surveillance, and presidential power

by Charles Fried , Gregory Fried

Joanne Ricca at her lakeside home in rural Maine with husband Martin Bartlett.

Harvard dropouts from the class of 1969

Forty-some years ago, three Sixties types dropped out. We drop in on them.

by Craig Lambert

Darden preparing river-cane splints for weaving, c. 1900.

Brief biography of Native American basket-maker Clara Darden

Brief life of an overlooked artist: c. 1829-1910. With images of Darden's masterpieces of river-cane basketry.

by Ivan Gaskell

Illustration by Miguel Davilla

The United States bubble economy and lessons from Japan

Prospects for American economic recovery—and cautionary lessons from Japan

by Jonathan Shaw

Sir Luke Fildes, <i>The Doctor</i> (1891)

Arthur Kleinman on the societal and medical ramifications of caregiving

A scholar experiences the moral acts that come before—and go beyond—modern medicine.

by Arthur Kleinman

Andrew Wylie

Profile of literary agent Andrew Wylie

Andrew Wylie '70 runs a powerful literary agency that mixes hardball business and highbrow tastes. With audio from an interview with Wylie.

by Craig Lambert

Nicholas Christakis

Network scientists at Harvard: Nicholas Christakis, Laura Bogart, Martin Nowak

Exploring the weblike structures that underlie everything from friendship to cellular behavior

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Jay Lorsch and Rakesh Khurana offer a new paradigm for executive compensation

Time for a new paradigm for executive compensation

by Jay Lorsch , Rakesh Khurana

A wedding photograph of Masauko and Catherine (Ajizinga) Chipembere. Years later, Catherine Chipembere served as deputy minister of health and population in the Malawian government.

Brief life of Malawian nationalist Masauko Chipembere

Brief life of a pioneering African nationalist: 1930-1975