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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...
A High-Priced Product
Readers of this hefty work will frequently think of Samuel Johnson on Paradise Lost: "None ever wished it longer than it is." But they...
Off the Shelf
Visions of Spaceflight: Images from the Ordway Collection, selected and with an introduction by Frederick I. Ordway III '49 (Four Walls Eight...
Chapter & Verse
James Lyon asks for the source of the poem: "I know not to what strange and mystic ends/Fate willed that I survived my friends;/Though in a...
The Sorry State of Harvard Football
In both 1949 and 1950 Harvard won only a single football game; in 1951 Yale won just two. Princeton, however, "had used its alumni to...
Harvard as Seen in Its Buildings
As Harvard raises new buildings and begins thinking about its future presence on its Allston properties, will it conform to the prevailing...
by Christopher Reed
The Law concerning Kite Flying on Massachusetts Beaches
Chip Samuels is blowing up trophy houses on Cape Cod in Spectacular Happiness (Scribner, $25), a novel by Peter D. Kramer '70, M.D. '76...
John Adams, Up-front Guy
In this twenty-first century era of the second President George Bush, it seems peculiarly appropriate that one of America's leading biographers...
Off the Shelf
Detail of an image of the million-degree solar corona taken by the TRACE satellite, from Nearest Star. Lockheed Martin/NASA Nearest...
Kick Kennedy and Evelyn Waugh
Amanda Smith '89, A.M. '92, is a doctoral candidate in English at Harvard. She is also the granddaughter of Joseph P. Kennedy '12 and the editor...
Chapter & Verse
Edith Kovach seeks the author and additional text of a poem she believes was titled "The Father Mole to His Son," which ended...