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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...
Icon of the Life of the Mind
"Why can't one speak truth sometimes, and call C.E.N. publicly and without apology the infernal old sinner and sham that he is," wrote William...
Lost Art
The Harvard Dictionary of Music defined "improvisation" in 1969 as "[t]he art of performing music spontaneously, without the aid of manuscript...
"Rush to Failure"
On March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan shocked the national security establishment by calling upon the nation's scientific community...
Off the Shelf
The View from Nebo: How Archaeology Is Rewriting the Bible and Reshaping the Middle East, by Amy Dockser Marcus '87 (Little, Brown, $25.95)...
Daniel Donoghue reviews Seamus Heaney's "Beowulf" translation
The morning after Beowulf wrenches off Grendel’s armthus purging the Danish royal hall of its unwelcome visitorKing...
Buy America
Buy America John D. Spooner ’59, author of Do You Want to Make Money or Would You Rather Fool Around? (Adams Media...
Off the Shelf
On the Rez, by Ian Frazier ’73 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25). “This book is about Indians, particularly the Oglala...
Chapter & Verse
Janice Weiss asks where Benjamin DeMott may have written that literature is “an elegant clockworks that tells no time.”  ...
America's Open Door
Heaven's Door is George J. Borjas's second major work on the economic consequences of the great wave of immigration into the United States of...
Off the Shelf
Linnaeus: Nature and Nation, by Lisbet Koerner, Ph.D. '93, associate of the department of the history of science (Harvard University Press...