September-October 1997
On the cover: John Dockery '66, the only alumnus to earn a Super Bowl ring (bottom center), displays mementos of his varsity sports. Such three-letter men have given way to single-sport stars like Naomi Miller '99, a striker on the women's soccer team. Photograph by Doug Mindell.
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Why high-school physics fails, eighteenth-century consumption, teamwork in the cockpit, and cold antimatter
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Cambridge 02138
Communications from our readers - with links to the original articles (a great introduction to recent pieces)
Harvard Health
The elusive diagnosis
The Browser
When children inspire great artists, the voice of Egypt, and a first recording of Telemann works
New England Regional Edition
Stages of life and styles of housing, plus a special restaurant in the South End
The Alumni
Remembering J. Anthony Lukas, Homer bashes Elis, a European tour, and the HAA's new president
The College Pump
Harvard pros
Treasure
Historic hues
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COVER ARTICLE
Full-time recruiting, one-sport specialists, year-long seasons, and the
rise of superstars and corporate sponsors are transforming
the last bastion of the amateur athletic ideal
by Craig Lambert
Brief life of an idiosyncratic Brahmin: 1850-1926
by Curtis Prout
From historic manuscripts to high-speed computers, Harvard's map collection documents human knowledge of a changing world
by Christopher Reed
A preeminent critic reflects on Allen Ginsberg's work and probes the structure of William Shakespeare's sonnets
by Helen Vendler
Reconstructing the campus, commitment ceremonies at Memorial Church, Harvard's expanding presence in Allston, a new home for the humanities, a quarter century of coresidence, hard-hat with a fine-arts degree, jailing a book thief, the tiniest tenants, the College and public-service programs at loggerheads, undergraduate teamwork, and fall sports
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