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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
F. Markoe Rivinus requests the title and the other words of a song he heard in the late 1950s; he remembers two lines: “You ain’t no...
Destroying Childhood
A child has been killed in war every three minutes during the last decade. Many were not civilians. Irregular armies from Sudan to the...
by Jacqueline Bhabha
Off the Shelf
Revolutionary Generation: Harvard Men and the Consequences of Independence, by Conrad Edick Wright ’72 (University of Massachusetts Press...
Ice Cream and Vinegar
Seventeen authors, several of them Harvardians, reread a book or a poem (or the Sgt. Pepper lyrics) that impressed them in their youths and...
Chapter & Verse
Arnold Schwab seeks to verify the author of a squib about Oscar Wilde, attributed in a 1957 anthology to Algernon Charles Swinburne: “When...
Changed by the Court
Few Supreme Court justices, after their appointments, have drastically changed their fundamental views of law and life. Most justtices, after...
Off the Shelf
Miss Leavitt’s Stars: The Untold Story of the Forgotten Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe, by George Johnson (W.W. Norton...
Chapter & Verse
Mike Kempson requests a source for the following exchange, possibly from an old poem: “It was just the other day that the Gray Swan sailed...
Norse Calypsos, et Cetera
The polymathic Nicholas D. Humez ’69silversmith, author, banjoist, classical philologist, composer of operas and string quartets...
Memory Retrieved
Novelist and teacher of writing Nicholas Delbanco ’63 explores a box in the attic in one of nine essays, “In Defense of...