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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...
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...
Summer at the Beach
For 42 summers, George Howe Colt '76 repaired to the four-story, 11-bedroom ark of a summer house his great-grandfather Ned Atkinson built on a...
Chapter & Verse
José Rigau would appreciate help in identifying the person (possibly French historian Charles Seignobos) who defined enlightened...
Off the Shelf
After Jihad, by Noah Feldman '92, Jf '01 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24). Is Islamic democracy possible? Should America help bring it about?...
The Salem Witch Trials: Revisiting Fear and Conflict in Colonial America
The history of Salem witchcraft has its own history, its own long, tortuous, emotionally freighted sequence of tellings and retellings...
An Aristocrat's Killing
Some homicides just won't die. The 1849 murder and dismemberment of Boston Brahmin George Parkman, A.B. 1809, a compulsive, disagreeable, and...
"Entering the Elite"
An apocryphal tale about car-window decals epitomizes the frenzy surrounding college admissions in recent years. One high-school counselor tells...
Off the Shelf
The Crimson Letter: Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Culture, by Douglass Shand-Tucci '72 (St. Martin's, $25.95). After...
Open Book
Poet and literary figure John Hall Wheelock '08 (1886-1978) was an editor at Charles Scribner's Sons for 46 years, working with Hemingway...
Chapter & Verse
Arnold Schwab asks if someone can identify "Fougère," a reference in an 1895 review of The Importance of Being Earnest in which Cecily is...