Craig Lambert
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Galileo and Benjamin Franklin on PBS
Two great scientists who couldtheoreticallyhave taught at Harvard will be celebrated on television this fall with help from Harvard...
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The Cult of the Charismatic CEO
In 1997, one of the blue-chip icons of corporate America, AT&T, was in trouble and seeking a new leader. The company was operating in a...
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Catcher on the Fly
The game's turning point—and perhaps the play that locked up last year's Ivy football title—came with 6:57 left in the third period...
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Jolson & Company
Their physical resemblance is striking. Yet deeper ties connect Al Jolson, the twentieth century's first superstar, and Stephen Mo Hanan '68...
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Sailing: Broad Reach
They buy their subway tokens and ride two stops to Kendall, then walk to the Harvard Sailing Center, on the river near MIT. The sailing team...
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Stealthy Attitudes
We like to believe we're fair-minded, democratic, unbigoted. Would it were so. In fact, we readily deceive ourselves about our prejudices...
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Trafficking in Chance
The dozens of ATM machines lining the entrances to the Mohegan Sun casino don't operate in quite the usual way. If you withdraw $400 in cash...
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Uptown to "Harlemworld"
In 1996, Blockbuster Video opened its first store in Harlem, on 125th Street. The outlet soon became the third-highest-grossing Blockbuster in...
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"Bobby" Jones
Jones connects at the Flintridge Golf Club in Los Angeles in 1931. Photograph courtesy Sidney L. Matthew. Photomontage by Bartek Malysa...
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Alternative medicine ("integrative medicine") goes mainstream
In the 1950s the American Cancer Society had a Committee on Quackery. Later that turned into a committee on "unproven methods of cancer...
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Heavyweight Contender
Grappler Dawid Rechul may be the most flexible man in his class
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"A Force on the Ice"
There has been a Moore on the ice for Harvard since 1996, when Mark Moore '00 matriculated. His brothers, Steve '01 and Dominic '03, followed...