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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...
Seduction by Credit
In The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science (Princeton University Press...
Complicated Relationship
Freshman women officially joined their male counterparts in Harvard Yard's dormitories in 1972. But 25 years later, when Harvard College...
by Jean Martin
Minding the Gap
Abigail Thernstrom, a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, and Stephan Thernstrom, Winthrop professor of history at Harvard...
Off the Shelf
St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography, by Philip Freeman, Ph.D. '94 (Simon and Schuster, $24). It's a pious fiction that Patrick drove the snakes...
Worry, a Powerful Driver
In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington, by Robert E. Rubin '60, LL.D. '01, and Jacob Weisberg (Random House, $35)...
Chapter & Verse
Frederick Wegener hopes someone can supply an earlier source for the remark "[I]t is often the higher nature that yields, because it is the...
On Mathematical Imagination
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, said Shakespeare, are of imagination all compact. He forgot the mathematician, whose daily concerns are...
A Succinct Credo
Squash aficionadosand Harvard has nurtured many of them, at first under legendary coach Harry Cowleswill find deeply satisfying and...
Off the Shelf
Harvard Yard, by William Martin '72 (Warner, $25.95). When John Harvard was born, his parents' friend William Shakespeare gave them an autograph...
Chapter & Verse
John Glismann would like to learn the source of "Here's to the man who'll take my place when it's time for me to go." John Havelock...