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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 2004 Volume 107, Number 1 Jump to Section: Letters, Right Now, The Browser, Harvard Calendar, Up Next, Features, John Harvard's Journal, The Alumni, The College Pump, Treasure Letters Cambridge 02138 STEM-CELL RESEARCH Poor Jack, or is it Jill, pictured sitting atop a needle on the cover of your July-August issue ("Stem-Cell… Right Now Heaven, Hell, and Profits The Protestant Ethic—you probably know the gist of it. Sociologist Max Weber’s famous treatise on "the spirit of capitalism&quot… Voting into Vapor n/a Megastore Politics Wal-Mart, with its 3,500 stores across the country (as well as plans to add nearly 10 percent more in 2004), is the most visible part of the… Extreme Housing There are more than 20 million refugees in the world, and for many of them, home consists of UN-donated plastic sheeting held up by sticks… Blackboard Brain Drain When children return to classrooms this fall, they’re less likely than ever to find a very smart teacher standing at the front of the class… Back to top The Browser Quality Care As I read David Cutler’s important new book on how to deal with the nation’s most challenging social problem, I kept wanting more. Cutler… Off the Shelf Neoconomy: George Bush’s Revolutionary Gamble with America’s Future, by Daniel Altman ’96, Ph.D. ’00 (Public Affairs, $26.95). "The… Controversial Reunioner The urbane Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl ’09 was Hitler’s crony and foreign press chief during the Führer’s ascendancy, and played… Chapter & Verse James MacKillop writes, "The quotation, ‘The map appears to us more real than the land’ (sometimes misquoted as ‘The map appears to be…’)… Back to top Harvard Calendar Harvard Calendar THEATER. The American Repertory Theatre presents Marcel Marceau and the Marceau Company in Les Contes Fantastiques (Fantastic Fables), a… Back to top Up Next Accidental Entrepreneurs Most new businesses are driven by desire: for Allison Nelson and Jon Phillips, both M.B.A. ’95, it was a shared obsession with books. Some… The Self-Made Mindset David L. Bodde, D.B.A. ’75, and Poonam Sharma ’99 enrolled at Harvard a generation apart, but the two authors offer the same advice to anyone… Back to top Features Self-Binding At the end of World War II, the United States found itself in a situation of unprecedented power. The economy of the former hegemonic state… Little Boat, Unsalvaged Thwarts, chines, ribs mud-caked, this one’s deadrise bow is liftedas if by gusts, whitecaps’ scud and swat no fear with her. Would she&nbsp… Stuart Chase On a chilly autumn day in 1911, Stuart Chase entered the Boston Public Library and, finding a seat in the economics section, composed a personal… Wrong! 037674-046195-731809 All artwork courtesy of the Harvard University Art Museums, ©2004 President and Fellows of Harvard College In June… Death by the Barrel This particular gun story took place, ironically enough, at the 1997 convention of the American Public Health Association in Indianapolis… The Mysterious Mr. Shakespeare I set out to solve a mystery," says Cogan University Professor Stephen Greenblatt. "The basic facts of Shakespeare’s life have been… Making the Wires Touch "When you read literary works or see them on the stage, as in the case of Shakespeare," says Stephen Greenblatt, "you are… Shakespeare after All When Kenan professor of English and American literature and language Marjorie Garber taught Shakespeare to Harvard graduates at an "Alumni… Back to top John Harvard's Journal Face-lift Its stacks, reading rooms, and offices already renovated, climate controlled, and rewired for the twenty-first century, the time had come to… Educating Undergraduates In the new academic year, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) continues its review of the entire undergraduate curriculum. Many details… Emmanuel Akyeampong Emmanuel Akyeampong Photograph by Jim Harrison When professor of history and of African-American studies Emmanuel Akyeampong… Compensation Flap Continued Further news coverage of the compensation of Harvard Management Company’s (HMC) highest-performing portfolio managers, who earned up to $35.1… Yesterday's News 1914 When an alumnus threatens to cut a $10-million bequest to Harvard out of his will unless outspokenly pro-German professor Hugo… Undergraduate Tuition During the past 20 years, Harvard’s undergraduate bill has risen from $14,000 to $39,880 per academic year (before any offsetting financial… "Roots" and Race In June, a New York Times article raised a long-simmering issue: the origins and ancestry of Harvard’s black students. The piece described the… Dispatches from the Front Interim Iraqi Government minister Nesreen Berwari’s phone number, area code 914 (a New Rochelle exchange!), rings in Baghdad, a satellite trick… University People University Professors Laurence H. Tribe Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office George M. Whitesides Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard News… A Gift for Openness When Sidney Verba, Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the University Library, described the library’s fledgling Open Collections… Russia Case Progresses In late June, Judge Douglas P. Woodlock of the U.S. District Court in Boston issued a summary judgment clearing Harvard University of three… Controlling Conflicts of Interest Following a broad review begun in early 2003, Harvard Medical School (HMS) this May formally reaffirmed and updated its policies governing… Letter from Phnom Penh Editor’s note: Arianne Cohen ’03, a former Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow, spent the last academic year in Cambodia. Now, while… Brevia Gender Milestone For the first time, slightly more women than men will enroll in the cohort of students entering Harvard College, making the… Eyes Opened But Averted I make decisions on a whim, decisions prompted by sudden changes in interest—and subject to immediate retraction once I’ve recovered sense… New Ledecky Fellows Nathan J. Heller and Amelia E. Lester Photograph by Jim Harrison Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate… Saturday Afternoon Improv Though the Harvard football team runs one of the most sophisticated offensive sets in the country, the team also likes to play what they call… Henley: Grand Run Cream-covered strawberries, taken with tea on the banks of the Thames. A flute of champagne as crisp as the English afternoon. A tableau fit for… Hockey's Donato Returns In July, Ted Donato ’91, a former Crimson captain, was named Ziff head coach of men’s ice hockey. He succeeds Mark Mazzoleni, who left Harvard… Back to top The Alumni A Prescription for Change On a sweltering summer afternoon, Cheryl L. Dorsey ’85, M.D.-M.P.P. ’92, is hard at work, cruising briskly down the Bronx River in a homemade… Harvard@Home: Commencement and Cloning If you missed Harvard’s 353rd Commencement in June—or if you were there and want to relive the experience—be sure to visit… HAA Leader Seeks Global Outreach The new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) summarizes the theme of his year-long term in four words: "Participate in… Hirum Hunn Awards Six alumni have been selected to receive this year’s Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarship Awards, presented by the Harvard College… Chow-crowd Pleaser In 2001, just before the Boston Red Sox franchise sold for $700 million, an investor group headed by Joe O’Donnell ’67, M.B.A. ’71, pulled out… Farmers' Friend The author of an authoritative, commodity-by-commodity handbook on sustainable agricultural practices for 12 international staple crops… A Different Kind of Triathlete You know that new activity you’ve wanted to take up? Maybe it’s something eclectic, like cooking Thai food from scratch, souping up old cars… Having Fun with the News 037707-040708-731810 Even after six years and continuing success at the helm of National Public Radio’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me, Peter Sagal… Doing His Work Philippe E. Wamba ’93 was killed in a car crash in Kenya in September 2002 while he was conducting research for a book on African youth. He was… Back to top The College Pump Pay the Term Bill in Barrel Hoops "Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Roger Thompson of Norwich, England, an emeritus professor of… Back to top Treasure Wintergreen for President Images courtesy of the Harvard Theatre Collection When the Harvard Band trots onto the football field at halftime this fall, it will…

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