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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...
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...')...
Lives Intertwined
For years, side by side with a photograph of my best dog ever, I've kept on my office mantelpiece Mathew Brady's portrait of the 11-year-old...
Off the Shelf
On the jacket, a detail of an idealized image of a chief (or mwanangana, "lord of the land"), created by an artist in Angola in the...
What Do Your Feelings Have to Do with Literature?
"How strange it is...that we are so often locked out of ourselves," writes Arnold Weinstein, Ph.D. '68, in A Scream Goes through the...
Engineer of Fictions
When Thomas McMahon, McKay professor of applied mechanics and professor of biology, died unexpectedly of heart failure on Valentine's Day, 1999...
by Nathan Heller
Chapter & Verse
Winthrop Drake Thies seeks the legal citation for a British Admiralty case "which supported the necessity of the foreign tribunal having...
Off the Shelf
A bombardier beetle, in a photograph by Eisner from the bookFor Love of Insects, by Thomas Eisner '51, Ph.D. '56 (Harvard University Press...
Chapter & Verse
Nicholas Puner requests leads to lost favorites. In the first, a short story, a man is driven progressively around the bend by a malefactor who...
Seduction by Credit
In The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science (Princeton University Press...