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March-April '98



Right Now
  Architectural infrastructure, museum managers, African Americans and the Bible, childhood commercialized

Departments
  Editor's Letter
An observant Harvardian

Cambridge 02138
Communications from our readers - with links to the original articles (a great introduction to recent pieces)

Harvard Health
In gambling's grip

New England Regional Edition
The active retired life, more on the new tax law, what to eat at local museums

The Browser
The definitive account of Mao's misleadership, murder at Littauer, and a vocalist of note

The Alumni
A penetrating photographer, widows unite, plus Overseer and Harvard Alumni Association director candidates

The College Pump
The sad life of Good Will Sidis

Treasure
Delighting in Dumbarton Oaks


Features

 
COVER ARTICLE


The excavation of the realm of King Croesus, begun 40 years ago, yields surprising discoveries about diaspora Judaism, early Christianity, and a millennium of everyday life
by Janet Tassel




A selection from "College Pump" columns, and part two of a Harvard timeline, continue the magazine's centennial festivities.



Harvard's working woods, now a modern scientific laboratory, are wired to detect changes in the global environment
by Christopher B. Daly

Brief life of a versatile lawyer: 1815-1882
by Castle Freeman Jr.



A balanced budget, revisiting the undergraduate curriculum, Internet litigation, construction and Cambridge, professing on public opinion and on racial issues, remembering Radcliffe's Mary Bunting, the new Coop, Harvard honorees, the grape gladiator, confronting sexual harassment, a track star is born, and a winter sports wrap-up








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