July-August 2002

BELLUM AMERICANUM Never have I read anything as arrogant as Stephen Peter Rosen’s "The Future of War and the American Military&quot…

Our nervous system sends us thousands, if not millions, of buzzing sensations each day. Fortunately, the brain lets us screen important sensory…

One knew, perhaps, that the gas nitric oxide (NO) is a constituent of automobile exhaust and a big player in the formation of smog, and is no…

Goethe—no doubt inspired by European masterpieces—described architecture as "frozen music." The Wal-Marts and Home Depots of…

We like to believe we’re fair-minded, democratic, unbigoted. Would it were so. In fact, we readily deceive ourselves about our prejudices…

It is a testament to his energy, vitality, and ambition that, in the ninth decade of his life, the business school’s Alfred Chandler ’40, Ph.D…

Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, by Catherine Orenstein ’90 (Basic Books, $25). Much we need…

Robert Boardman seeks a source for the assertion that, if political and military leaders are from different backgrounds, “the armies will be…

When we think of Henry David Thoreau, A.B. 1837, we conjure up a literary stylist, a close observer of nature, a political oppositionist, and a…

FILM. Following its recent summer tradition, the Harvard Film Archive offers “movies from A to Z” taken from its 6,000-print collection…

Barbara Leondar, Ed.D. ’68, never used computers at work. E-mail was virtually nonexistent when she retired in 1991, as were personal computers…

We almost walked right by it, distracted by the offerings at the Colonial Theatre and Commonwealth Bookstore, and by the glint of the setting…

Globalization has brought little but good news to those with the products, skills, and resources to market worldwide. But does it also work for…

The dozens of ATM machines lining the entrances to the Mohegan Sun casino don’t operate in quite the usual way. If you withdraw $400 in cash…

One hundred years ago, the Macmillan Company published The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains, a novel about an unnamed Wyoming cattleman. The…

It’s a troubling area, the economics of saving lives. Take cervical cancer, for example. In the United States we have spent enormous sums for…

Editor’s Note: Nicholas Dawidoff ’85 has just published The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World, a richly detailed…

Sodden ones. In Tercentenary Theatre candidates for the degree of doctor of dental medicine await the conferring of their credentials…

Three women and nine men received honorary degrees at Harvard’s 351st Commencement, a constellation of luminaries larger than in any year since…

Jim Harrison Seniors are led to Baccalaureate by class marshals (from left) Daniel Droller, of Eliot House and Pelham, New York; first…

Courtesy Kevin A. "KAL" Kallaugher ’77 NEWS BLACKOUTS Notwithstanding that Harvard is a place of free and open discussion…

So often was he grilled by the press in the days before he delivered his controversial address, that Zayed M. Yasin ’02 prepared a handout of…

I am one of you. But I am also one of “them.” What do I mean? When I am told that this is a world at war, a war between the great civilizations…

Graduate English Address, by Avery W. Gardiner ’97, J.D. ’02. Her father, considering the weather and his daughter’s future law practice in…

President Lawrence H. Summers took stock of the ever wetter, colder weather as the Commencement afternoon exercises proceeded and decided to…

At the dinner for honorary-degree recipients the night before Commencement, President Summers characterized Daniel Patrick Moynihan, using one…

Although—let us be right out front —there is nothing gradual about it. Surely your progress has been digestively slow, Has…

"For those moving from warmer climates, inexpensive winter clothing can be purchased at local second-hand clothing stores, consignment…

Education is like a garden, explains Carol Strickland, a sixth-year student at the Graduate School of Education (GSE). "You can’t plant a…

Seen here [this photograph not available on-line] at the Fogg Art Museum with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, LL.D. 1859, is Sandra Grindlay…

What would it take to address the financial problems of particularly needy students who want to pursue their graduate or professional education…

The brief, intense search for a new dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) concluded May 20, when President Lawrence H. Summers…

The first radiant spring day formed an auspicious backdrop for President Lawrence H. Summers’s first decanal appointment, on April 9. Ellen…

Harvard plans to erect a new building on Mount Auburn Street beside the Fox Club (foreground). Harvard has tapped Leers Weinzapfel…

The faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has made it easier for Harvard College students to study abroad, and more difficult to earn academic…

Prized Professors From left to right: Stephen Rosen, William Todd III, Jeremy Bloxham, and Marc Hauser Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office…

The President and Fellows of Harvard College—as the seven-member, self-perpetuating Corporation, the University’s senior governing board…

Stymied in its attempts to resolve certain student peer complaints—most seriously those alleging sexual assault—the College’s…

From HCF to HBS Under executive director Richard B. Boardman, the Harvard College Fund has become the premier annual giving organization in…

A deficit at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) that in October was projected to reach $2.9 million for the academic year 2001-2002 (see…

Military Message General Richard B. Myers Photograph by Jon Chase / Harvard News Office "Never before has there been a time when…

For the first two years of my college career, I was single. Though I dated a bit, I found the romantic waters of Harvard Yard extremely cold…

For the last two years, Harvard junior Yiting Liu has been at the epicenter of a new phenomenon in her native China: celebrity status for Ivy…

They buy their subway tokens and ride two stops to Kendall, then walk to the Harvard Sailing Center, on the river near MIT. The sailing team…

Men’s Crew The Crimson decisively swept the Harvard-Yale boat race (the varsity winning by 41.3 seconds), to cap a strong season. The men’s…

It was November 1966, and Carl Pope ’67, stationed in front of Quincy House, was about to get one of his first tastes of political activism…

In her early days at the Harvard Alumni Association, Joanne K. Woods not only worked closely with the board of directors, she took care of…

When he stepped down as president of the Harvard Law School Association on Class Day, June 5, ending a two-year term, Robert N. Shapiro ’72…

Election Results The membersof the Board of Overseers have elected Thomas S. Williams Jr. ’68 theirnew president. He succeeds Richard E…

Marion Coppelman Epstein Photograph by Jim Harrison Although rain washed out the traditional alumni parade, Marion Coppelman Epstein…

1937 A 1.2-million-volt x-ray machine has been installed in the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital, a department of the University, to…

"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." John Harvard Mall may not be on physical heights exactly, but…

"Was introduced to Miss Kate Loring, a most charming and lovely girl….I danced with her twice or three times, and found her very…