January-February 2001

Volume 103, Number 3

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Letters

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Communications from our readers

Harvard Health

Addressing Arthritis

Managing arthritis pain

Right Now

Some Classical Profanity

Classics debowdlerized

Stubborn Theorems

Seven math mysteries

Very Young Beauty Queens

Baby beauty contestants

Work at Its Best

Moral excellence in the professions

The Browser

Risk without Reward

When investors outsmarted themselves

Off the Shelf

The Funhouse Mirror… Keeping the Edge…

Chapter & Verse

Sheila Berg would like a source for a quotation she heard at the time of John Kennedy Jr.’s death that spoke of sand and pebbles…

The High Noon of the Print Culture

“Of all childhood pastimes, reading was my passion,” writes historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ’38 …

New England Regional

Renewing Ancient Bonds1

Reaching across generations…

A Pleasure of the Flesh

Athenians of the fifth century B.C. were crazy about seafood…

Events

Winter events

Features

The Storyteller

A professor’s close study of Harvard undergraduates yields rich lessons about what makes college succeed - and how students can make it work for them

Image and the Arc of Feeling

Jorie Graham’s challenging lyrics use language to give readers the experience of the poem

Quantum Art

Chemist, physisist, and artist Eric Heller harnesses the computer to render stunning images of minute natural phenomena

Innocent Merriment

The theatre Collection challenging lyrics use language to give readers the experience of the poem

John Jay Chapman

Brief life of a neglected critic: 1862-1933

Whither Harvard?

A new president must rethink the University’s academic structure…

John Harvard's Journal

Decoding Life’s Mysteries

A new center for genomic and life sciences…

The Wages of Affluence

Endowed affluence

Face-to-Face with Faculty

Faculty members and freshmen

Janet E. Halley

A family-law scholar

HBS, Stanford Forge a Bicoastal e-Alliance

Bicoastal e-alliance

Sweatshop Challenge

Sweatshops scrutinized

All the Would-Be Presidents' People

The presidential candidates’ lawyerly advisers

Crimson on the Hill

Crimson Congresspersons

A "Sick" Democracy

America’s troubled democracy

Yenching Plundered

Chinese books stolen

Remote-Controlled Library

Accessing the libraries online

Grandel's Playhouse to Wax, Hasty Pudding to Wane

Square theaters new and old

Brevia

Searching for a scientifically literate Harvard president

"Sex" without DeVore

The “Sex” professor’s curtain call

For Mental Health at Harvard

Minding student mental health

Upstairs, Downstairs

Students and staff

Hoopes Hoopla

What undergraduates study in depth

Senior Class Marshals

Class marshalls

The Unstoppable Botterill

Athletes in front of and beneath the net

Wizard of Treys

Basketball

Outpointed

Football dreams intercepted

The Alumni

Remaking Paradise

Caribbean showplace reborn

Prophet of Self-Esteem

John Taylor Canfield ’66 dished up his first bowl of Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit in 1993…

The Future of the HAA

The Alumni Association staffs up

Rose Is a Rose...

In light of Radcliffe College’s 1999 transformation…

Thank You

The Harvard Alumni Association Awards recognize outstanding volunteer service

Club Service

The HAA Clubs Committee this fall introduced a new award…

Comings and Goings

Winter lectures orgazined by the Harvard Alumni Association…

Hearts and Sciences1

“Children should know their grandparents” is the motto…

Martial Artist

Shortly after Liz Pennell ’79 divorced in 1991, her son (then five years old) told her …

Yesterday's News

1921- As of January 4. Harvard Yard is closed to automobiles…

On the Team

Making the cut for the New England Patriots’ cheerleading squad is grueling…

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