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How Women Are Changing the NBA
From coaching staffs to front offices, female leaders are bringing new strategies to men’s basketball.
Masters of Metal
"Glory and prosperity" are the first words of a benediction often inscribed on medieval Islamic metalwork, and any civilization that...
The Future of War and the American Military
The people who run the American military have to be futurists, whether they want to be or not. The process of developing and building new...
Murasaki Shikibu
The Japanese woman who wrote the extraordinary Tale of Genji a thousand years ago is known only by a nickname. Her given name went unrecorded...
Managing with Markov
It has attracted less attention, perhaps, than searches for Big Foot or a cure for the common cold, but the quest for the optimal baseball...
Faculty Diversity
When alumni, after a long absence, stroll through Harvard Yard or return to any other university campus, two questions usually come to mind:...
Spring Sampler
Photographs by Jim Harrison unless otherwise indicated. Objects © President and Fellows of Harvard College Here begins an excursion...
"Bobby" Jones
Jones connects at the Flintridge Golf Club in Los Angeles in 1931. Photograph courtesy Sidney L. Matthew. Photomontage by Bartek Malysa...
Alternative medicine ("integrative medicine") goes mainstream
In the 1950s the American Cancer Society had a Committee on Quackery. Later that turned into a committee on "unproven methods of cancer...
A Woodsplint Basket
Displayed in the "Hall of the North American Indian" at Harvard University's Peabody Museum, the basket looks like many others made in...
America and Latin America
George W. Bush is not the first president to make Latin America a personal priority. Nor is he the first to drop the region from his agenda when...