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Editor’s Highlights Sign up to be notified of new issues. See a sample newsletter	Skip to primary navigation January-February 2004 Volume 106, Number 3 Jump to Section: Letters, Right Now, The Browser, Harvard Calendar, New England Regional, Features, John Harvard's Journal, The Alumni, The College Pump, Treasure Letters Cambridge 02138 BIOTERRORISM THREATSNestled as it is between the "invisible college" of Copernicus and the Harvard Medical School research-building… Right Now Build It and They Will Hatch Few of us could build a full-size house without a blueprint, yet birds construct elaborate and painstaking homes using only a beak and, perhaps… The Middle-Class Trapdoor In 2001, more men and women went bankrupt than filed for divorce or graduated from college (1.5 million versus 1.1 million and 1.2 million… Profiling, Good and Bad It’s the beginning of a holiday weekend, and the line through the airport security checkpoint is backed up almost to the terminal door. After… Authorial Synapses William Faulkner didn’t so much write The Sound and the Fury as erupt with it, pouring out the masterpiece in a matter of weeks, his words and… Back to top The Browser On Mathematical Imagination The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, said Shakespeare, are of imagination all compact. He forgot the mathematician, whose daily concerns are… A Succinct Credo Squash aficionados—and Harvard has nurtured many of them, at first under legendary coach Harry Cowles—will find deeply satisfying and… Off the Shelf Harvard Yard, by William Martin ’72 (Warner, $25.95). When John Harvard was born, his parents’ friend William Shakespeare gave them an autograph… Chapter & Verse John Glismann would like to learn the source of “Here’s to the man who’ll take my place when it’s time for me to go.” John Havelock… Back to top Harvard Calendar Harvard Calendar THEATER. The American Repertory Theatre presents Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream from January 10 through February 28 at the Loeb… Back to top New England Regional The Next Chapter Winding up long careers as corporate executives in New York City, Daniel and Elizabeth Rowe made an unlikely leap: They moved to a 55-acre farm… Deluxe Food, Garden View From the start, when the hostess escorts you to the elevator for your ride up to the dining rooms, you know that this is no ordinary restaurant… Back to top Features The Deficit Danger At the time of the last presidential election campaign, four years ago, the government was running a sizable budget surplus. That surplus… Janos Plesch In1937, John Maynard Keynes had a serious heart attack. His British doctors more or less gave up on him and prescribed indefinite bed rest. But… The Hydrogen-Powered Future Drive up a country road winding between horse pastures, cross a small bridge, then climb a gravel lane, and you can reach a house that seems to… Green Buildings Since 1991, Rocky Mountain Institute has worked with clients like the Pentagon, Oberlin College, the White House, and the 2000 Sydney Olympic… Final Architect This story has taken a surprising turn. Blame it on the tomatoes.It started out as a profile of a popular professor, his populous course, and… The Visit to Abraham The Lord appeared to him [Abraham] at the oak-trees of Mamre, as he was sitting near the door of his tent during the hot part of the day. He… The Evolution of Abraham We first meet Abraham in Genesis 11. Abraham, a descendant of Noah through his son Shem, lived with his family in the city of Ur in Chaldea… DNA as Data When George McDonald Church arrived at Harvard in 1977, nine out of 10 biologists did research without touching a computer. They wrote journal… Polony Power “Polonies” are tiny colonies of DNA, about one micron in diameter, grown on a glass microscope slide (the word itself is a contraction of… Back to top John Harvard's Journal Journal Opener At the Malkin Athletic Center, fencer Eunice Yi ’04 (right) slashes at her opponent with a saber. Yi is one of the top fencers on Harvard’s… The President's Perspective On an October Friday afternoon, Lawrence H. Summers met with Harvard Magazine in his office at Massachusetts Hall to discuss the status of the… Kenneth S. Rogoff Kenneth S. RogoffPhotograph by Jim HarrisonAs the American under-21 chess champion, Kenneth S. Rogoff decided to “miss most of the last two… Allston Planning: Working "Hypotheses" In a 5,900-word letter to the Harvard community dated October 21, written at the Corporation’s request, President Lawrence H. Summers outlined… Buildings and Benefits The story of Harvard’s 2003 budget came down to benefits and buildings. During the 12 months ended last June 30, the University’s revenue… Film Archive Goes Silver Recently, a caller from the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna had two questions for Bruce Jenkins, Cavell curator of the Harvard Film Archive: Do… Neuroscience News Harvard’s emerging Center for Systems Neuroscience got a double boost in late fall: the appointment of its first director and the approval by… Yesterday's News 1924 In a Crimson poll on Prohibition, the Harvard community votes nearly two to one to keep the Volstead Act in force, and 1488 to 940 in… Global Reach in Health Sciences Drug-resistant malaria. “Risk factors” such as tobacco, alcohol abuse, and poor diet. “Delivery issues” from the training of healthcare… Riverside Rezoned It was June 1970 when Saundra Graham and other Riverside neighborhood activists stormed the stage at Harvard’s Commencement, demanding… Creating Community, On-line and Off The weeks leading up to Thanksgiving were especially busy for Harvard bloggers.Robert John Bennett ’68, who’s writing a novel on-line, posted… Recruiting vs. Rights The weeks leading up to Thanksgiving were especially busy for Harvard bloggers.Robert John Bennett ’68, who’s writing a novel on-line, posted… Design Dean to Step Down Peter G. Rowe, dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) since 1992, announced in October his intention to step down at the end of this… Development Doyenne Much remains to be decided about the scope, themes, and timing of Harvard’s next major capital campaign. But this much is already known: “The… "People Who Look like You" Sitting on a radiator in a Science Center corridor, Deborah A. Batts ’69, J.D. ’72, who is U.S. district judge for the Southern District of New… Aiming at Alcohol When the Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard reported to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences last spring, it pointedly observed… Brevia Not So Hasty Renovation The Hasty Pudding Theatricals building at 12 Holyoke Street, owned by Harvard since 2000, is inching toward a badly… Extracurricular Communities I think it came to me on a bleak November day, in the middle of an equally bleak economics lecture, as I perched high in the lofty wood… True Grit Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05, the football team’s multi-talented quarterback, is a gamer. After breaking a bone in his throwing hand in the season’s… Winter Sports in Brief Men’s Ice HockeyThe icemen (4-3-1, 3-3-1 ECAC) absorbed two early Ivy losses to Brown and Princeton before kicking off a three-game win streak… Saber-Fighting Warrior “There is something so visceral about facing off against another person,” says fencer Eunice Yi ’04. “You line up at the en-garde line, and you… Back to top The Alumni From Courtroom to Comedy Club “I was on the subway recently,” says Karen Bergreen ’87. “There was a little boy crying. I thought, ‘What can I do?’ I felt awful. Then I… European Outposts Some 450 graduates from 36 countries gathered at the London Hilton on November 14 for the two-day “Harvard in Europe” program, part of the… War Stories Robert T. Tims ’47 found the transition between his two worlds in 1945 sudden, dramatic, and disconcerting. “One day I was a beribboned first… Comings and Goings Harvard-affiliated organizations host a variety of lectures, seminars, and social gatherings. For details, contact local clubs directly, call… News from Harvard@Home Harvard@Home, the University-wide initiative for putting learning on-line, offers several new programs for 2004. They include: *Diana L. Eck… Catholic Socialist Socialism, it seems, has some serious PR problems. “Real, genuine, old-fashioned craziness,” says John C. Cort ’35, complaining of the socialist… Binational Physician When Anula Jayasuriya ’80, M.D. ’84, Ph.D. ’91, M.B.A. ’93, wanted to bring medical manpower and expertise to her native Sri Lanka, she… An Understanding Eye The thrill Amanda Lumry ’99 felt when she inspected her first roll of pictures in second grade has never changed: "I still marvel,&quot… Back to top The College Pump Advice to America from a French Friend "Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by."In the course of scholarly rummaging in the Harvard University… Back to top Treasure Royal Digits How did the Historical Collection in Radiology at the Countway Library of Medicine come to include the x-rays shown here of a man with a…

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