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DOES HARVARD REALLY WANT COLLECTIVE BARGAINING? "Living wage" proponents, sitting in at Massachusetts Hall last spring...

September-October 2001

Features

The California Meltdown

  by William H. Hogan A decade ago, California, along with other states and federal policymakers, began to rethink its approach to the...

William Brooks Cabot

Cabot in a caribou-skin coat. A sampling of his photographs of the Naskapi and their homeland is below. All images © William Brooks...

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...

by Craig Lambert

The "Great Good Place"

Harvard University hadn't been my first choice for post-graduate English studies, and I wouldn't have been there if the University of London had...

Origins

Ofer Bar-Yosef argues that cultural and technological revolutions have been more important than biological ones during the past 100, 000 years.

by Jonathan Shaw

RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas

Purse Strings of the Heart

Odysseus struggled to resist the Sirens. Adam Smith warned of dangerous passions for profusion. And we have all, despite our diets, succumbed to...

The Early Days of the H-bomb

If we build it, we lay the groundwork for acts of mass destruction and violence toward mankind. But if we don't build it, we leave ourselves...

"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...

John Harvard's Journal University news

July 2, Day 1

Lawrence H. Summers became the University's twenty-seventh president on Sunday, July 1. Next day, photographers visited his office in...

Radcliffe Ramps Up

Things are different at Fay House. As the academic year begins, Drew Gilpin Faust, the Civil War historian who is the first dean of the...

From Playwriting to Physics

The Radcliffe Institute's 2001-2002 fellows include a sculptor, a filmmaker, a painter, and two composers; a poet, a novelist, two playwrights...

"City-building" for an Urban Campus

As Harvard raises new buildings and begins thinking about its future presence on its Allston properties, will it conform to the prevailing...

Don Share

Photograph by Rose Lincoln Across from Don Share's desk hangs a photograph of Robert Lowell '37, Litt.D. '66, the poet Share...

The Law School Looks Ahead

The future of professional education at Harvard promises much closer interaction between professors and students, especially during their...

Harvard Offers Peace Pipe

Butch Thunderhawk, a Hunkpapa Sioux artist, and his colleague Wayne Pruse, both of the United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, North...

Where Pedagogy Is "Interesting"

When he was a graduate student at Harvard, recalls Richard Light, Ph.D. '69, resources for learning how to teach were scarce. As a budding...

Research Roster

Harvard hums with research. In the fiscal year ended June 30, 2000, the University received $429 million in sponsored-research support...

Weighing In on Wages

The committee appointed May 8 by then-president Neil L. Rudenstine to study wages and job opportunities for Harvard's lower-paid workers is...

Putting the Science in Social Science

Can political scientists devise formulas to predict the outbreak of war? Although the notion seems far-fetched, James Alt wants you to say...

Loss

One of the trying rituals faced by a newly arrived freshman at Harvard is that of endless introduction. It is almost impossible not to feel...

Brevia

Money Managers Move For the fourth time since 1998, a group of Harvard Management Company (HMC) investment professionals have decamped, seeking...

2001-2002 Ledecky Fellows

Photograph by Stu Rosner The students who will serve as Harvard Magazine's 2001-2002 Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows--both...

Buttonhook and Aloha

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

Athlete-in-Chief

Bob Scalise Courtesy Harvard Sports Information In 1978, Harvard won the Ivy League's first women's soccer championship, and that...

Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond

Harvard Calendar

SPECIAL. The thirty-second annual ice skating exhibition An Evening with Champions, organized by the students at Eliot House, takes place at the...

Almuni Harvardians far and wide

Driven to Cure

Stephen B. Howell Photomontage by Bartek Malysa On a breezy San Diego evening, Stephen B. Howell, M.D. '70, dons his white coat and begins...

New Direction

New HAA president Karen Spencer Kelly '80 Photograph by Justin Allardyce Knight Karen Spencer Kelly '80 opened her first speech as...

News from the HAA

Applauded Established in 1990, the Harvard Alumni Association Awards recognize alumni who provide exemplary volunteer service to the University...

A Matter of Place

Eason Cross '47, M.Arch. '51, has an architectural project in mind, although he may not be able to get to it as soon as he would like. He wants...

A Matter of Words

How many Harvard graduates have a job description that includes "quiz-show panelist"? If you guessed "At least one," go on...

A Matter of Style

Harvard has infiltrated such unlikely enclaves as Hollywood and the National Football League; now it is making inroads on Seventh Avenue...

Yesterday's News

1936 Harvard adopts a new parietal rule, stating that "Students living in the Houses will be given permission to entertain ladies in their...