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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.
Edward Gorey
Although he died almost seven years ago, Edward Gorey ’50 has just brought out a new book. Amphigorey Again, the fourth anthology of...
Reviewing "Reality"
The scene, at least the one framed by the family-room proscenium of the television screen, remains indelible. President George W. Bush emerged...
A President with a Purpose
As 2007 began, and several aspirants prepared to announce their candidacies for our nation’s highest office, Americans paused to celebrate...
Lessons from the SARS Epidemic
The SARS coronavirus epidemic provides lessons in how to combat zoonoses such as Ebola, swine, and avian flu.
The Science of Happiness
This doesn’t feel like a normal academic conference. True, the three-day Positive Psychology Summit is a sellout, with 425 attendees...
Alexander Wheelock Thayer
As a pianist, conductor, and composer, Ludwig van Beethoven was the most famous musician in music-crazy early-nineteenth-century Europe. He also...
Ken’s Story
A “rapidly developing revolution in cancer treatment” has prompted David G. Nathan, M.D., president emeritus of Dana-Farber Cancer...
An “Oracle of Aqua”
“Ours is a society of sensual eunuchs, impotent to the callings of the wildness within and as a result, the pull of that which resides...
The Ethanol Illusion
Americans annual consumption of gasoline (for both private and commercial transportation) amounts to more than 140 billion gallonsclose to 500...
Ouch!
The social status of physicians rose in the eighteenth century as their understanding of disease grew apace. But effective new treatments or...