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Them Apples
Images courtesy of the Harvard University Art Museums In Manhattan in 1958, the year he graduated from Princeton, Frank Stella assembled the...
Life Lessons
With portaits by Mark Ostow In a room where somber faces are the norm, Steve Cappiello is beaming. The tall, muscular 36-year-old points to...
Intelligent Evolution
Pellegrino University professor emeritus Edward O. Wilson, a scholarly giant of biodiversity and sociobiology, remains at heart a teacher. His...
Cinema Veritas
In the Carpenter Center theater last May, a seminar-size class in “Filming Science” is scattered among the seats, waiting for an...
Brief life of Harvard football pioneer William Henry Lewis
Brief life of a football pioneer: 1868-1949
The Science of Hurt
The Reverend Stephen Fulton falls a lot. Once he toppled into a freezer case at the grocery store. He has difficulty walking, and he can’t...
Exiting Iraq
I have chosen to discuss Iraq in part because there are over 150,000 Americans serving there in the military, as well as U.S. civilians:...
Frances Glessner Lee
To a forensic investigator, trivial details can reveal transgressive acts. Consider the card Frances Glessner Lee carried in her later years...
Caves
Robert Creeley ’47 died on March 30, shortly after being named the poet for the Literary Exercises conducted annually by Harvard’s...
The Slave Rebellion in New York City
Historian Jill Lepore explores the lives of slaves during an alleged eighteenth century uprising