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Editor’s Highlights Sign up to be notified of new issues. See a sample newsletter	Skip to primary navigation September-October 2001 Volume 104, Number 1 Jump to Section: Letters, Right Now, Diary, The Browser, Harvard Calendar, New England Regional, Features, John Harvard's Journal, The Alumni, The College Pump, Treasure Letters Cambridge 02138 DOES HARVARD REALLY WANT COLLECTIVE BARGAINING? "Living wage" proponents, sitting in at Massachusetts Hall last spring… Right Now 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… Back to top Diary Siren Song October 31, 2000, 4 p.m. I’ve just had one of those brief but potent conversations in which a casual comment by someone I scarcely know hits me… Back to top The Browser A High-Priced Product Readers of this hefty work will frequently think of Samuel Johnson on Paradise Lost: "None ever wished it longer than it is." But they… Off the Shelf Visions of Spaceflight: Images from the Ordway Collection, selected and with an introduction by Frederick I. Ordway III ’49 (Four Walls Eight… Chapter & Verse James Lyon asks for the source of the poem: "I know not to what strange and mystic ends/Fate willed that I survived my friends;/Though in a… The Sorry State of Harvard Football In both 1949 and 1950 Harvard won only a single football game; in 1951 Yale won just two. Princeton, however, "had used its alumni to… Harvard as Seen in Its Buildings As Harvard raises new buildings and begins thinking about its future presence on its Allston properties, will it conform to the prevailing… The Law concerning Kite Flying on Massachusetts Beaches Chip Samuels is blowing up trophy houses on Cape Cod in Spectacular Happiness (Scribner, $25), a novel by Peter D. Kramer ’70, M.D. ’76… Back to top Harvard Calendar 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… Back to top New England Regional Of Solar Panels and Salvaged Sinks As fuel costs skyrocket and concerns grow about the world’s energy resources, the idea of creating a more energy-efficient home becomes more… Where the Gentrified Antelope Play Three decades ago, Davis Square in Somerville was the pits. A Cambridge matron who lives nearby recalls walking her children over there for ice… Back to top 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… 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 There was a single birch tree that had overtopped the other trees on the island, and was now picked out against the moon-drenched sky. It was… Back to top John Harvard's Journal 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… Back to top The Alumni 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 Place1 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… Back to top The College Pump Bunk, in Faded Gingham "Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Harvard’s arrogance, and its just rewards, are the topics of… Back to top Treasure Down East Dazzlers One day in 1820 amateur naturalists Elijah Hamlin and Ezekiel Holmes were poking around on a hill in Paris, Maine, in the southwestern part…

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