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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.
Castling in the Square
The Harvard Chess Club battles the clock and the competition by Paul Hoffman On the last Sunday in October, last year, four members of the...
On the Road with Death
In a world where buses are "flying coffins" and "moving morgues" and pedestrians should tremble, pulblic-health experts take on a neglected...
Letter from Kayenta
I live among the red rocks of the Southwest and the "red men" who are native to them. The Navajo Reservation is a desolate place with...
Testing Trap
Supporters of the reauthorization, last January, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act hail it for tightening school accountability...
Charles Follen
Student revolutionary, political refugee, gymnastics instructor, radical abolitionist clergyman: German-born Karl Follen was an unusual Harvard...
The Cult of the Charismatic CEO
In 1997, one of the blue-chip icons of corporate America, AT&T, was in trouble and seeking a new leader. The company was operating in a...
Dorm Decor
"To me [my room] will always be haunted by my companions who have been there, by the books that I have read there, by the pleasure and the...
Reverence for the Object
"...in every prosperous municipality in the land, in the next ten years the call is likely to come for thoroughly equipped...
Globalization for Whom?
Globalization has brought little but good news to those with the products, skills, and resources to market worldwide. But does it also work for...
Trafficking in Chance
The dozens of ATM machines lining the entrances to the Mohegan Sun casino don't operate in quite the usual way. If you withdraw $400 in cash...