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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...

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)...

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...

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...

Galileo and Benjamin Franklin on PBS

Two great scientists who could—theoretically—have taught at Harvard will be celebrated on television this fall with help from Harvard...

by Craig Lambert