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Dollar Dramas
The preeminence of U.S. currency at risk
Godmothers of The Namesake
Mira Nair ’79 met Sooni Taraporevala ’79 in the Lowell House dining room in the fall of 1976. The two women, both of Indian descent...
by Craig Lambert
He Was on to Something
Educator James O. Freedman ’57, L ’60, who died in March of last year, was president emeritus of Dartmouth College and of the...
"The Monet of the Mountaintop"
Peter C. Liman, M.A.T. ’63, spent his business career as a marketing executive in toiletries and over-the-counter...
by Christopher Reed
Talented Eccentrics
Within living memory, computer programming was handicraft. Individual programmers strained to create works that were both useful and...
by Harry R. Lewis
Off the Shelf
Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853, by George Feifer ’56 (Smithsonian Books, $25.95)...
Judy Budnitz: Flying Leaps
In Nice Big American Baby, the newest collection of short stories by Judy Budnitz ’95, the author considers mothers and babies—and...
Ideas, Appassionato
Daniel Barenboim’s prodigious musical career has generated both acclaim and controversy. In September, the pianist and conductor...
Palace Indignities
Alexis Gregory ’57 is a collector of Renaissance and Baroque bronzes, a member of the Harvard University Art Museums Collections Committee...
Off the Shelf
Modern Liberty and the Limits of Government, by Charles Fried, Beneficial professor of law (Norton, $24.95). Fried assesses individual liberty...
Where the Eyeballs Are
“These are trying times for political cartoonists,” observes Kevin P. Kallaugher ’77. “I’m trying something new...
by Christopher Reed