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Quality Care
As I read David Cutler's important new book on how to deal with the nation's most challenging social problem, I kept wanting more. Cutler...
Chapter & Verse
Howard Hillman seeks a "botanically correct" poem describing two adjacent climbing vines that fall in love with each other and embrace...
Ray Charles Plays the "Harvard Club"
The most grandiose structure on the McLean Hospital campus in Belmont, Massachusetts, is Upham Memorial Hall, a brick mansion larger than many...
Obsessed at Harvard
Artist and writer Edward Gorey '50, who died in 1999, once told a would-be interviewer, "The facts of my life are so few, tedious, and...
Attacking Aids
The quest for an AIDS vaccine is a compelling story. Pronouncements on the subject have emanated from sources that ordinarily do not address...
Off the Shelf
As the Future Catches You: How Genomics and Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work, Health, and Wealth, by Juan Enriquez '81, M.B.A. '86, IAF...
Chapter & Verse
>William Coperthwaite seeks the source of "No night for sound, yet from the glen/Come fusillades of frost:/The random shots of frightened...
Hilarity On-line
The logo--a man in a suit and fedora striding confidently toward a banana peel--is, indeed, retro. But the comedy website Modern Humorist...
by Craig Lambert
An American Zen Master at Harvard
San Francisco Zen Center was founded by Shunryu Suzuki, and his Dharma heir was Richard Dudley Baker '58. Once at the hot core of the...
When Systems Fracture
As the enormity of September 11 sank in, a fertilizer factory near Toulouse, France, exploded, killing 29 people and hospitalizing at least 780...
Off the Shelf
Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America, by John F. Kasson '66 (Hill and Wang, $26)...