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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...
Wrangling about Reefs
Tucked away at the periphery of the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) on Oxford Street in Cambridge, off to the side of the historic Hall...
Off the Shelf
Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money, by James Engell ’73, Ph.D. ’78, Gurney professor of English and professor of...
The Allure of the Bad Boy
The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism, by Megan Marshall ’77 (Houghton Mifflin, $28), is a delightful group...
Chapter & Verse
Alon Ferency requests the source of a quotation that runs, roughly, “Oh life! That we would die a little each day, rather than live all at...
The Education Business
Ever since the later nineteenth century, American schools -- from elementary grades through college and graduate training -- have increasingly...
Galbraith v. the Supply-Siders
Richard Parker, who directs the program on economics and journalism at the Kennedy School, has written a meticulous, meaty, and colorful...
Off the Shelf
Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class, by Ross Gregory Douthat '02 (Hyperion, $24.95). "Harvard was not what I had...
Chapter & Verse
Joel Bresler seeks early uses of "Drinking Gourd" by African Americans as a name for the Big Dipper. He writes that the song...
Overheated Rhetoric
Michael Crichton '64, M.D. '69, State of Fear (HarperCollins, $27.95). Michael Crichton's State of Fear is less a novel than...
The Dance of Intellect
For generations now, critics as well as poets have debated what relationship, if any, poetry has to rational thought. The majority view is that...