John Harvard's Journal | November-December 2005
Ask Michael Mitnick ’06 what kind of singing voice he has and he replies, “A bad one.” Inquire about his piano-playing skill...
Last winter, in the waning minutes of the Harvard men’s home basketball game against Princeton, a tight contest with several lead changes...
Right Now | September-October 2005
Last December’s devastating tsunami leveled building walls that faced the sea in Sri Lankabut walls perpendicular to the shoreline...
For many summers, people have slathered and sprayed on sunscreens and fretted about SPF factors while scrambling to protect themselves from...
In a biography of composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Richard Kogan ’77, M.D. ’81, found startling episodes like this: “In a...
Right Now | July-August 2005
In the fall of 2001, Americans drastically revised their travel habits. “Driving went up, and flying went down,” says David Ropeik...
Features | July-August 2005
Not long ago, a psychiatrist in private practice telephoned associate professor of psychiatry Robert Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist...
Features | May-June 2005
The study where Mark Helprin writes his novels and short stories, essays, speeches, letters, and Wall Street Journal columns is a spectacular...
John Harvard's Journal | March-April 2005
"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets," wrote British...
The Harvard athletic department website, a shrine to the accomplishments of Crimson athletes, makes a peculiar boast regarding ice hockey...
Features | January-February 2005
Ragtop down, a spectacular view of San Francisco Bay and the city below suddenly opens up for two seconds as we tear around another bend...
John Harvard's Journal | November-December 2004
Size matters, but elevation matters more. Tall, long-legged Kaego Ogbechie '05 can do almost anything on a volleyball court, in ways that...
