March-April 2004

JUDGING THE DEFICIT DANGERWhat’s good for short-run fiscal policy is bad for long-run fiscal policy ("The Deficit Danger," by Benjamin…

Strange to say, swimming through rough water may actually be easier than swimming across a calm pond. At least that’s true for many kinds of…

In a discussion of criminal-justice issues, former U. S. Attorney General Janet Reno once stated that the life trajectory for most criminals was…

When a natural disaster strikes in the United States, only the president has the power to declare the site a federal disaster area, making it…

If ever someone understood the challenges of changing people’s minds, it was Charles Darwin. After doing his research in the Galápagos…

Parents in the 1960s generally expected their children to be passive observers who did as they were told. Today’s parents are more likely to…

Abigail Thernstrom, a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, and Stephan Thernstrom, Winthrop professor of history at Harvard…

St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography, by Philip Freeman, Ph.D. ’94 (Simon and Schuster, $24). It’s a pious fiction that Patrick drove the snakes…

In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington, by Robert E. Rubin ’60, LL.D. ’01, and Jacob Weisberg (Random House, $35)…

Frederick Wegener hopes someone can supply an earlier source for the remark "[I]t is often the higher nature that yields, because it is the…

THEATER. The American Repertory Theatre presents Harold Pinter’s black comedy The Birthday Party on March 6 through 27 at the Loeb Drama Center…

They’re the people who knew you first. For years, they were probably the people who knew you best. But once you’re in college, and for a while…

During his freshman year at Harvard, Sandi Simcha Dubowski ’92 lived a double life.In Cambridge, he was a highly public gay activist. In…

FORGING A NEW BOND Here are some tips to build an adult relationship with your parents. Leave the past behind. Many people cling to old…

For more than 50 years, the transatlantic partnership between the United States and Europe has been the linchpin of this country’s foreign…

Exercise has powerful benefits for the body and mind

Genetic endowments aside, an elite endurance athlete and the average daily walker are, in their adaptations to exercise, different less in kind…

The first formal epidemiologic study linking activity to better health took place in the late 1940s, when a researcher in London, Jeremy Morris…

Fuel for an Active Lifestyle Everyone should eat a balanced diet, but exercisers in particular should pay attention to the following advice…

In a career spanning nearly six decades, Walter Channing provided the medical skills and compassionate care women sought as they faced the pain…

Harvard’s plans to complete its "North Campus" in Cambridge took an important step forward when the University reached an agreement…

If there is going to be a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," says Robert H. Mnookin, "the rough outlines of what…

"Since our freshman year, beginning in the fall of 1939 with World War II, the primary focus of my interest has been how the world copes…

The Program on Negotiation (PON), a robust organization headquartered in Pound Hall at Harvard Law School, was founded in 1983 by seven pioneers…

Teachers of negotiation use role simulations, powerful learning devices that help students internalize theory in a compelling way. I play the…

The reconstruction of Harvard Business School’s Baker Library — to incorporate a 100,000-square-foot new "academic center" and…

The current review of Harvard’s undergraduate curriculum has become the widest imaginable inquiry into teaching and learning at the College…

In his annual report, published in early February, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) William C. Kirby outlined three simultaneous…

Unlike the world, the Kennedy School office of Michael Ignatieff, Ph.D. ’76, is immaculately tidy. "It’s complete illusion," he…

Jacqueline A. O’Neill Rose Lincoln / Harvard News Office Madam Marshal President Lawrence H. Summers has appointed Jacqueline A…

Harvard’s plans to complete its "North Campus" in Cambridge took an important step forward when the University reached an agreement…

Harvard’s plans to complete its "North Campus" in Cambridge took an important step forward when the University reached an agreement…

Harvard’s plans to complete its "North Campus" in Cambridge took an important step forward when the University reached an agreement…

Harvard’s plans to complete its "North Campus" in Cambridge took an important step forward when the University reached an agreement…

Photograph by Stu Rosner Dean of the Law School Elena Kagan testified that she decided on the spur of a frozen moment in January…

Two collections assistants at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology were making an inventory of objects in the Oceania storerooms last…

1919 Alice Hamilton is appointed assistant professor of industrial medicine, becoming the first woman to hold a professorial position at the…

The University is an increasingly international community. For the 2002-2003 academic year, according to the Harvard University Fact Book…

In the wake of new military recruiting practices on campus, sharp differences of opinion continue to fuel exchanges about the right way to…

Cellist CelebratedThe tenth annual Harvard Arts Medal will be conferred on internationally acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76, D.Mus. ’91, during…

Thayer. 2 a.m. Six freshmen, clad in muted grays, stocking-caps, and ski-masks, review, for the umpteenth time, their plot. Lock-pick kit?…

Thayer. 2 a.m. Six freshmen, clad in muted grays, stocking-caps, and ski-masks, review, for the umpteenth time, their plot. Lock-pick kit?…

Last December, at the Cliff Keen Invitational wrestling tournament in Las Vegas, something unusual happened: Jesse Jantzen ’04 lost a bout. In…

Ice Hockey The men (8-11-2 overall, 6-8-1 ECAC) continued strong play that often has come up a goal or two short. By midseason, their only Ivy…

Sure, he’s got the traits. He’s young (34), bright, ambitious, intense, brimming with ideas. He walks fast, talks faster, and rarely wears a…

Harvard benefactors can, for the first time, participate directly in the superior investment returns earned on the University’s endowment assets…

Harvard@Home, the University-wide initiative for putting learning on-line, has introduced several new programs. They are: "The Process of…

  Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard Commencement Exercises, the following…

An unexpected phone call from her son’s therapist snapped Claire Scovell LaZebnik ’85 out of her "second novel syndrome." Dr. Lynn…

Editor’s note: Last October, Leo Beranek, S.D. ’40, AMP ’65, received the National Medal of Science for engineering from President George W…

"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Isn’t it time that the Postal Service honors Brown and…

The inhabitants of Japan’s northernmost island enjoy cold that pierces and snow that blows, but the indigenous Ainu woman who possessed this…