Craig Lambert
The Browser | July-August 2003
An Aristocrat's Killing
Some homicides just won't die. The 1849 murder and dismemberment of Boston Brahmin George Parkman, A.B. 1809, a compulsive, disagreeable, and...
Gravity's Riddle
Ever since the fabled apple fell before Isaac Newton, gravity has posed enigmas. Along with electromagnetism and the strong and weak forces that...
John Harvard's Journal | May-June 2003
Stage One
Two years ago, Emily Knapp '03 was slated to be the assistant director for a production of Eugene O'Neill's The Great God Brown, which the...
John Harvard's Journal | May-June 2003
Diamonds for Tiffany
Last year's Ivy League Player of the Year, Whitton hits for average, power, and RBIs Photograph by Jim Harrison Late in the season last...
John Harvard's Journal | May-June 2003
Quick at the Plate
It came down to an esophagus-and-esophagus finish, but with friends cheering him on, Ian Walker '03 swallowed up the lead of a chomping Eagle...
John Harvard's Journal | March-April 2003
A Rush from Olympus
This isn't their first team effort, not by a long shot. "For so many years, they have spent so much time on the same sheet of ice together that...
Race, Sex, and Love
Tiger Woods, possibly the world's best-known athlete, resists being called a "black" golfer. He coined the term "Cablinasian" (Caucasian...
Far-out Sagittarian
An artist's rendering of OGLE-TR-56b and its star Illustration courtesy Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Five thousand light...
Right Now | January-February 2003
The Blaxploitation Era
Three of last summer's popular film comediesBarbershop, Undercover Brother, and Austin Powers: Goldmemberrecalled, in one way or...
Features | January-February 2003
Hertzberg of the New Yorker
On a January evening in 1977, at the old New Yorker offices on West 43rd Street, a going-away party was in progress for Hendrik Hertzberg '65, a...
Right Now | November-December 2002
Censorship online
Originally, the World Wide Web was envisioned as exactly that—a global vehicle for the unimpeded flow of information, without barriers...
Right Now | November-December 2002
Chiseled Farewells
In Rome's placid Protestant Cemetery, the remains of poet John Keats rest in a nameless grave that bears an epitaph he wrote himself: "Here...