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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...
Steve Gould's Baseball Blind Spot
The favorite baseball player of the late Harvard professor Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)as readers of a new collection of his essays on...
Chapter & Verse
Herbert Allard requests a source for "...dry clashed the harness on the barren walls...." He takes harness to mean armor. Peter Roberts...
The Founders
If you were told that an emeritus professor at Harvard had decided to stitch together several of his recent public lectures and publish them as...
Off the Shelf
Will Chandler at the helm The Cruise of the Blue Dolphin: A Family's Adventure at Sea, by Nina Chandler Murray (Lyons Press, $24.95)...
Life on the Culinary Edge
When Jeffrey L. Steingarten switched careers in 1989, leaving the profession of law to join Vogue magazine as its resident food critic, he had...
Off the Shelf
A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America, by Lizabeth Cohen, Jones professor of American studies (Knopf...
Alan Dershowitz's Perfect World
"Paint a picture of your ideal world," Debra Trione asked 50 "of the most powerful and influential leaders in America." A Perfect World (Andrews...
The Corporation Welcomes Its First Woman
In February 1989, Judith Richards Hope, J.D. '64, became the first woman member of the Harvard Corporation, the University's executive governing...
Chapter & Verse
Harvey Carnes seeks the author of a poem about Lincoln: "young Abe/of the too-short pants/and too-long legs" who becomes "...Abe/of the sad...
The Uncertain Art
Sometimes wrong; never in doubt." Atul Gawande quotes this saying about surgeons in the opening pages of Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an...