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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...
Build Yourself a Democratic House
"Build a yurt with Bill and you witness his educational ideas in action. The yurt is his philosophy made visiblesecurity...
The Straight Skinny on String (Theory)
Courtesy WGBHPhysicists' quest for the "theory of everything," now focused on string theory, poses unusual problems of imagination...
Conflict in the Stacks
Library history used to be the sleepiest of all academic disciplines. Compared with the gripping narratives of military or political history, it...
Off the Shelf
Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths, by Mary Lefkowitz, Ph.D. '61, RI '73 (Yale University Press, $30). Lefkowitz, who has...
That Very Mad Affair
Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation (Knopf, $25.95), by David A. Price, J.D. '86, is a stylishly...
Chapter & Verse
Miranda Yousef asks for titles of any novels that reprint this excerpt from Ford Madox Ford's poem "In October 1914": "This is...
Our Founding Grandfather
Benjamin Franklin, himself a prolific writer of exceptional grace and vigor, would surely be delighted with the vivid accounts of his life that...
Off the Shelf
Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil, by Peter Stansky, Ph.D. '61 (Yale University Press, $35). Sir Philip Sassoon (1888-1939), descended...
A Victory for Bach (and Biggs)
The great concert organistand sometime radio-broadcast starE. Power Biggs brought fame to himself and limelight to Harvard on an...
Bacteria Are the Cake
Andrew H. Knoll, Ph.D. '77, Fisher professor of natural history, is a paleontologist who integrates geological and biological perspectives on...