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Editor’s Highlights Sign up to be notified of new issues. See a sample newsletter	Skip to primary navigation July-August 2000 Volume 102, Number 6 Jump to Section: Editor's Letter, Letters, Harvard Health, Right Now, The Browser, New England Regional, Features, John Harvard's Journal, The Alumni, The College Pump, Treasure Editor's Letter Transitions Harvard certainly knows how to mark significant milestones. At the end of this academic year, the University had suitable reasons to throw not… Letters Cambridge 02138 n/a Back to top Harvard Health An "Understandable" Complication A phrase that applies to just about every surgical procedure might be “This is going to get worse before it gets better.” Surgeons themselves… Back to top Right Now 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… The Gated Menace of "Private Cities" Neighborhoods are the building blocks of a metropolitan area. But neighborhoods are not identical units, such as bricks; quite dissimilar, they… The Half-life of Robin and Kim By now firemen, policemen, and mailmen sound like cultural relics from the 1950s next to the no-nonsense firefighters, police officers, and… Distant Planets In the last five years, the idea of finding planets orbiting other stars has gone from a science-fiction fantasy to a reality frequently… Back to top The Browser American Society Unglued? n/a Off the Shelf The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst, by David Nasaw (Houghton Mifflin, $35). When Hearst moved into Matthews Hall in Harvard Yard in… Commencement Address, the Genre Commencement speeches, according to cartoonist Garry Trudeau, “were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never… Chapter & Verse Gerard Lenthall wishes to learn the identity of “Garamaz,” a 1938 reference. Thomas Lemann would like a source for words attributed to… Monastic Time/Harvard Time Monastic Time/Harvard Time Each June for the past six years, Robert Kiely, Ph.D. ’62, has been a guest at an Italian monastery for a… A Lifetime with Bach For some music lovers, it may be a relief when the 250th anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach passes on July 28. Though he has… Back to top New England Regional Staying Active without Climbing Mount Everest Darting around his living room, Brad Washburn ’33, L.H.D. ’75, shows a visitor excerpts from his latest manuscript and copies of his alpine… Events The summertime in Cambridge is a chance to savor life’s all too swiftly passing moments. Take some time to spread out a picnic on the banks of… Dining with Bogart and Bergman One talent distinguishes the few chefs who are truly gifted from those who are merely fine cooks: imagination. Take something as simple as that… Back to top Features Your Friend, Fidel Jorge I. Domínguez, Dillon professor of international affairs and director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard… Harvard and Havana Since Fidel Castro took power, direct travel and communications between the United States and Cuba have been proscribed. But academic and… Eyes on the Island n/a With a Little Help from Harvard's Friends On Saturday morning, May 13, the dull gray of the sky over Cambridge brightened the white dogwood beside the Faculty Club, colored more deeply… "A Hazard of Good Fortune" A few years ago, in this very theater, we began a major undertaking together, and we did so without knowing quite how, or perhaps even whether… Core Curriculum Technology and the transformation of identity, community, and commerce Moderator: Sherry Turkle ’69, Ph.D. ’76, professor of the… 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… What I Read at War …sed carmina tantum nostra valent, Lycida, tela inter Martia, quantum Chaonias dicunt aquila… What Drew Me to War n/a Back to top John Harvard's Journal 349th: A Lovefest Rain never falls on a Harvard Commencement, but it descended in Biblical volume on the Phi Beta Kappa and baccalaureate processions two days… Honoris Causa n/a Commencement Confetti Student linen-crew workers made up the dorm beds that would welcome reunioners. Some beds were then changed as alumni departed and new ones… Cat, Frog, Worm... The principal speakers during Commencement week 2000 said much about the value of reasoned inquiry, the importance of universities as a home for… Rudenstine Will Step Down Neil L. Rudenstine, whose service as Harvard’s twenty-sixth president began July 1, 1991, announced on May 22 that he would step down at the end… Distance Learning @Harvard.edu New technologies, changing demographics, and the emergence of richly funded, Internet-based e-learning ventures may lead to serious upheavals… The Adaptive Law of the Land In an exaltation of deans, the acting dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the institute’s dean-elect welcomed dean of… Back to the Drawing Board n/a University People n/a Dean Murphy Moves On n/a Digital-age Policy n/a Medical Ethics Revisited n/a '60s Generation Confronts '90s Protest n/a Beyond Wages in the Workplace n/a Brevia n/a The Anti-thesis I’ve always had difficulty with conclusions. Writing a 101-page senior thesis may have only made my problem worse. I should have heeded the… Freewheeling at 50 M.P.H. Swooping left, then right, now cruising straight ahead at the speed of a fresh gale, then suddenly diving into a hollow and rising up together… A Sportive Spring n/a Back to top The Alumni Starting Up at Harvard Not too long ago, Daniel Saul ’95 left his “respectable” job as a management consultant with Booz•Allen & Hamilton in New York and… The Oldest Graduate n/a News from the HAA n/a The Grounds Round n/a Yesterday's News n/a Back to top The College Pump Our Obedient Servant Robert Shenton, Ph.D. ’62, who died in February (see “Brevia,” May-June, page 72), was secretary of the Governing Boards from 1971 to 1991… Back to top Treasure "Chinese" Wilson, Shutterbug The legendary explorer was at home behind the camera. Barging on the seine this summer? Don’t forget your plant-hunting gear and your…

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