Craig Lambert

Galileo and Benjamin Franklin on PBS

Two great scientists who could—theoretically—have taught at Harvard will be celebrated on television this fall with help from Harvard...

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...

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...

Jolson & Company

Their physical resemblance is striking. Yet deeper ties connect Al Jolson, the twentieth century's first superstar, and Stephen Mo Hanan '68...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"Bobby" Jones

Jones connects at the Flintridge Golf Club in Los Angeles in 1931. Photograph courtesy Sidney L. Matthew. Photomontage by Bartek Malysa...

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...

Heavyweight Contender

Grappler Dawid Rechul may be the most flexible man in his class

"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...