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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...
When Government Was Good
Did Henry Wallace, with a heart of gold, have his head in the clouds?
American Society Unglued?
Thinking about civic engagement
Off the Shelf
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst, by David Nasaw (Houghton Mifflin, $35). When Hearst moved into Matthews Hall in Harvard Yard in...
Commencement Address, the Genre
Commencement speeches, according to cartoonist Garry Trudeau, "were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never...
Chapter & Verse
Gerard Lenthall wishes to learn the identity of "Garamaz," a 1938 reference. Thomas Lemann would like a source for words attributed to...
Monastic Time/Harvard Time
Monastic Time/Harvard Time Each June for the past six years, Robert Kiely, Ph.D. '62, has been a guest at an Italian monastery for a...
A Lifetime with Bach
For some music lovers, it may be a relief when the 250th anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach passes on July 28. Though he has...
"Rush to Failure"
On March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan shocked the national security establishment by calling upon the nation's scientific community...