Craig Lambert

Cheerleaders Take Flight

Along the sidelines or at center court, a group whose future is up in the air

A Short Proust and a Long Bellow

Biographer and editor James Atlas tells stories of real lives

The Curse of Adonis

When professor of psychiatry Harrison G. Pope Jr. '69, M.P.H. '72, M.D. '74, began lifting weights in 1980, it was seen as "rare and exotic...

Ken Miyata

When he died at the age of 32, Kenneth Ichiro Miyata, Ph.D. '80, was one of the most famous fly-fishermen in the world. But even those who had...

"Where I Was Meant to Be"

"She was pretty much the topic of anyone and everyone's conversation ..."

Rigorous studies show that the placebo effect accounts for most of the benefits

Harvard researchers discuss the side effects of Prozac and other SSRIs

Longshots Can Win in the Schoolyard

When he was four, Raymond's family moved from Mexico to the United States. Everyone worked. The four children helped their mother deliver...

Saltcellar as Symbol

A salt can be "an element that gives flavor or zest," but a new local restaurant chooses a different metaphor: "Throughout...

Deep Cravings

The bombshell dropped in 1976, when "The Natural History of Chipping" appeared in the American Journal of Psychiatry. In their article, Norman...

Fictions of Science

In November, 1997, a curious report emerged from physicists at the California Institute of Technology, who claimed that certain subatomic...

"Hell's Aardvarks" at 50

In the antediluvian days before e-mail, the Harvard Crimson's notice column published an alphabetical list announcing student events. Space...

Sensational, Shocking Tabloid Run by Harvard Grad!

For a few months recently, the National Enquirer added a two-word prefix to its name on the cover: it was "The New National Enquirer.&quot...