November-December 2003

THE STADIUM’S CENTENNIALI was initially intrigued by the sidebar "Little Red Flag" in Craig Lambert and John Bethell’s "First and…

The hunters launched in mid August from Iceland and steamed into the North Atlantic. There were three ships, each tracing a different track…

Long considered by many the stock in trade of charlatans, hypnosis in fact can relieve the anxieties of patients in the midst of difficult…

The news, reported in the November 14, 2002, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), sounded startling. C-reactive protein (CRP)…

With its booming factories, roaring steam engines, and great, groaning machines, the Industrial Revolution made quite a racket. Surrounded by…

Library history used to be the sleepiest of all academic disciplines. Compared with the gripping narratives of military or political history, it…

Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths, by Mary Lefkowitz, Ph.D. ’61, RI ’73 (Yale University Press, $30). Lefkowitz, who has…

Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation (Knopf, $25.95), by David A. Price, J.D. ’86, is a stylishly…

Miranda Yousef asks for titles of any novels that reprint this excerpt from Ford Madox Ford’s poem "In October 1914": "This is…

"Build a yurt with Bill and you witness his educational ideas in action. The yurt is his philosophy made visible—security…

Courtesy WGBHPhysicists’ quest for the "theory of everything," now focused on string theory, poses unusual problems of imagination…

MUSIC. The Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society present a Winter’s Evening Holiday Concert at the Pleasant Street Congregational…

Three years ago, Luella Kramer’s friends were shaking their heads. "They all thought I’d lost my mind," the retired nurse recalls…

The Mediterranean diet has become a kind of gold standard for healthy eating among the cognoscenti. Oleana, near Inman Square, proves that it…

There can be few higher privileges for the scientific community than to contribute to the security, freedom, and well-being of our nation and of…

The many corporate scandals of the past two years have highlighted the importance of effective corporate governance. Cases that are by now…

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Editor’s note: Paul E. Farmer, M.D. ’88, Ph.D. ’90, is professor of medical anthropology in the department of social medicine. His title and…

In the fall of 1927, the small group of black students at Harvard learned of the impending arrival of an exceptionally gifted new black graduate…

Owen Gingerich, Ph.D. ’62, takes a seat on his "rocket cart"—a dolly with a steering stick in front, a straight-backed chair…

Photograph by Hillel Burger. Courtesy of the Peabody Museum, Copyright © 2003 President and Fellows of Harvard College This altar at the…

The curtain has begun to lift on Harvard’s growing commitment to life sciences, particularly those involving biomedical research. Three events…

Two recent grants to faculties at the far geographic reaches of the University demonstrate the diversity and scale of Harvard’s life-sciences…

Timothy MitchisonPhotograph by Jim Harrison"When I came to America, I found that if you could do something or had something to say, people…

Harvard Medical School, in an historic expansion rivaling the construction of its original white marble quadrangle a century ago, dedicated its…

Greater cost-consciousness will become a part of Harvard’s culture in much leaner University budgets for fiscal year 2005, beginning on July 1…

A powerful fourth-quarter rally led by fixed-income portfolios yielded a total return of 12.5 percent on endowment assets for the fiscal year…

Harvard’s chief pedagogues are going back to class. The Graduate School of Education (GSE) is pursuing changes in its curriculum and internal…

The curriculum may be remade, plans for Allston refined and implemented, but no monument to administrative accomplishment at Harvard would equal…

Expansion of the undergraduate student body, construction of as many as three new undergraduate Houses across the Charles River, and expansion…

Photograph by Jim HarrisonFacing the loss of the Rieman dance center to the Radcliffe Institute in 2005, Harvard College dean Benedict Gross…

This spearhead of nephrite jade set in a bronze socket embellished with turquoise, shown actual size, was crafted circa the thirteenth to the…

Dean of the Kennedy School of Government Joseph S. Nye announced in early September that he intends to step down as dean this coming June. Nye…

The college-counseling suite in my high school, with its brochure-laden atrium, drawers of student files, and closed-door conferences, reminded…

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Few have ever faced the choice that Berenika Zakrzewski ’04 had three years ago: Harvard or Juilliard? "It was exasperating," she…

The day before I arrived in Kosovo, authorities in Pristina changed the name of the capital city’s thoroughfare from Vladimir Lenin Street to…

Archie C. Epps IIIJon Chase / Harvard News OfficeArchie C. Epps III, B.D. ’61, Harvard College dean of students from 1971 to 1999, died August…

Last fall, the Harvard field hockey squad was locked in a scoreless tie with Boston University. Though the teams had similar national rankings…

What’s up with Ryan Fitzpatrick? Might this soft-spoken junior from Arizona be the most talented quarterback to play football for Harvard since…

Women’s Soccer The netwomen (3-3-2, 1-0 Ivy) snapped Penn’s 10-game unbeaten streak with a 2-1 home victory over the Quakers to open their Ivy…

In the mid 1980s, Ram Sasisekharan, Ph.D. ’92, turned to tennis to ease the pressure of his intensive graduate studies in biophysics. His search…

Alumni Abroad As classes resumed in Cambridge, alumni on both sides of the Atlantic were gearing up for the "Harvard in Europe&quot…

Those who missed the Alumni College on "The State of the Global Environment" earlier this year can still experience the event via the…

1923 Responding to a New York Times assertion that "information from Harvard, Princeton and Yale" indicates that the Volstead Act…

Every day in Dallas, people gather in Dealey Plaza to look up at the sixth floor of what once was the Texas School Book Depository. Some lay…

Every day in Dallas, people gather in Dealey Plaza to look up at the sixth floor of what once was the Texas School Book Depository. Some lay…

"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by."Phantom may have had the president’s ear (see "Phantom…

Photographs Courtesy of Harvard University Archives. Photograph of Bronze Statue Courtesy of the Harvard Univerxity Portrait Collection, 2003…