Craig Lambert

Voting into Vapor

Fully electronic systems will record about one-third of the votes cast this November. But "Until and unless everyone understands...

The Medicalization of Torture

The revelations of torture and prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib facility in Iraq may not be over; the Army's Fay Report and the independent...

Profile of Harvard quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick '05

Though the Harvard football team runs one of the most sophisticated offensive sets in the country, the team also likes to play what they call...

Chow-crowd Pleaser

In 2001, just before the Boston Red Sox franchise sold for $700 million, an investor group headed by Joe O'Donnell '67, M.B.A. '71, pulled out...

Public-health response to gun fatalities: make weapons less lethal

The public-health response to gun casualties: make the weapons less lethal

The Wizard of Backstage

Last November, when the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) produced the French Romantic play Lorenzaccio on the Loeb Drama Center's main...

The Thwarts of Last Resort

Like fire extinguishers and airline safety cards, lifeboats remind us of a reality we prefer to ignore; on a tropical cruise, we tune out the...

Ideas Rain In

In 1675 Isaac Newton suffered a mental breakdown—some modern psychiatrists diagnose him as a manic-depressive—and he was still...

The End of Blackness?

"Blackness has been shrugged off by the force of events," says Debra Dickerson, J.D. '95. "Things are not perfect racially, but...

The Way We Eat Now

Last year, Morgan Spurlock decided to eat all his meals at McDonald's for a month. For 30 straight days, everything he took in—breakfast...

The Swinging Lingmans

In college tennis, there are no mixed doubles: athletes play only against their own sex. Still, the men's and women's teams root for each other...

A God’s Eye View of Space

Harvard's plans to complete its "North Campus" in Cambridge took an important step forward when the University reached an agreement...