Craig Lambert

Far from Clueless

Like many Harvard seniors, Sofia Lidskog '01 interviewed for jobs with investment banks and management consulting firms in New York City...

Demolish the Food Pyramid

In the wild, animals instinctively find and consume the foods best adapted to their bodies. Not so for humans. Agribusinesses, fast-food chains...

Hilarity On-line

The logo--a man in a suit and fedora striding confidently toward a banana peel--is, indeed, retro. But the comedy website Modern Humorist...

Nabob of the No-huddle

The National Football League (NFL) has had only one head coach with a Harvard degree, but he was an awfully good one. This year, Marv Levy, A.M...

The Dow of Professional Sports

Traditionally, the best tickets put you nearest the action, but here in the skybox, we look down, as if from an aerie, on the baseball game...

Buttonhook and Aloha

Record-breaking passer Rose, going aerial last fall Photograph courtesy Harvard Sports Information Talk about spectacular entrances: In...

"Hypochondria of the Heart"

In 1688 a Swiss doctor, Johannes Hofer, identified a new medical syndrome, nostalgia: "the sad mood originating from the desire for return...

Shakespeare's "Tenth Muse"?

Illustration by Bartek Malysa Perhaps the second-most-cultivated plant in Elizabethan England, after wheat, was hemp--Cannabis sativa...

The Accidental Agriculturist

Up to a point, the vita of John G. Bemis '68 looks like that of a classic preppy. Born and raised in Concord, Massachusetts, the first-born son...

Exploding Evolution

Evolution will occur wherever organisms display variation, differences in fitness, and the capacity for inheritance. Humans have always sped up...

Taste of Provence

This could be where a trend starts: Sel de la Terre, hard by the site of Boston's Big Dig, offers eight first courses, all priced at $8, and...

Banjos and Balance Sheets

Banjoist Alison Brown '84, a standout in folk, jazz, and bluegrass genres, is a rarity: a Grammy-winning artist who is also a successful...