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January-February, 1997

Right Now
  Light pollution, the stalker's world, violent chimpanzees and peaceful bonobos, geriatric jocks

Departments
  Editor's Letter
Setting political agendas

Cambridge 02138
Communications from our readers - with links to the original articles (a great introduction to recent pieces)

Harvard health
Perilous pregnancies

The Browser
The state of the nation according to Derek Bok, and films about Harvard and Hawai, as well as Chapter and Verse, Off the Shelf, and Open Book: The Abduction of Phil Esposito

New England Regional Edition
Advice on personal finance, the restaurant guide, a review of Lala Rokh, and a calendar of Harvard events and sports

The College Pump
Crimsonalia

The Alumni
Keeping in touch on the Web, along with a little of Yesterday's News, and profiles of a legal expert abroad, a pioneer, a literary physician and a Doctor of Phishography

Treasure
Sex in the kitchen





Features
  Where Will Psychoanalysis Survive?
What remains of Freudianism when its scientific center crumbles?
by Alan A. Stone, M.D.



Maya Museum
Harvard archaeologists help create a mammoth new museum in Copán, Honduras
by Jonathan S. Shaw



Vita: Pierre de Savorgnan Brazza
Brief life of a lover of Africa: 1852-1905
by Maria Petringa



The Life of Chairs
Grab a seat, sit down, and read about that creature of comfort--the inescapable chair
by Edward Tenner



Forum: The Challenger Civilizations
The coming confrontation between "the West and the rest"
by Samuel P. Huntington



John Harvard's Journal
Major gifts fund computer sciences and international studies centers, Harvard fiscal facts, a new dean for the Medical School, racquets-center plans revealed, technology advances at the Business School, the long career of Fred Glimp, a portrait of Stephen Palumbi, the Undergraduate suggests students be trained to read, McGeorge Bundyon the University, interpreting the Arboretum, The Game, some genuinely worthwhile sport on the soccer field, and a shining women's basketball team.

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