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The True Cost of Grade Inflation at Harvard
How an abundance of A’s created “the most stressed-out world of all.”
Public-health response to gun fatalities: make weapons less lethal
The public-health response to gun casualties: make the weapons less lethal
The Mysterious Mr. Shakespeare
I set out to solve a mystery," says Cogan University Professor Stephen Greenblatt. "The basic facts of Shakespeare's life have been...
Designs for the Dance
When impresario Serge Diaghilev launched his Ballets Russes in Paris in 1909, he injected into the tired corpus of European ballet a massive...
Stem-cell Science
Portraits by Stu Rosner The next time you look in a mirror, reflect on this: the face staring back at you is literally not the same one you...
Caliphate of Terror
This year, a group of international terrorists announced its intention to affect an election with the goal of replacing a government that...
Helen Keller
Totally deaf and blind from the age of 19 months, world famous at seven for having learned to read, write, and communicate through the finger...
Medicare Solutions and Problems
The addition of prescription-drug coverage to Medicare is the first substantial expansion of benefits since the program was enacted nearly 40...
Covering the Uninsured
In any given month last year, 43 million Americans—17 percent of people under age 65—lacked either private health insurance or public...
The Brahmin Rebel
Last year, the publication of his Collected Poems returned Robert Lowell '39 to the center stage of American poetry. From 1946, when he won the...
by Adam Kirsch
Harvard A to Z
(Excerpted from Harvard A to Z, by John T. Bethell, Richard M. Hunt, and Robert Shenton, published this May by Harvard University Press...