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

March-April 2004

Features

The Imbalance of Power

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

The Deadliest Sin

Exercise has powerful benefits for the body and mind

by Jonathan Shaw

Walter Channing

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

by Amalie M. Kass

A God’s Eye View of Space

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

by Craig Lambert

Peacemakers

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

by Christopher Reed

RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas

The Way of Trout

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...

Twigs Bent, Trees Go Straight

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

The Politics of Disaster

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...

Pliable Paradigms

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

Kids Turn New Pages

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...

John Harvard's Journal University news

Baker, Bisected

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

Rethinking College

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

Arts and Sciences' Ambitious Plans

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

Michael Ignatieff

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

University People

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

Agassiz Agreement

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

Flame and Ashes

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

Allston Budget Billions

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

"Extraordinary Bonuses"

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

An Icy Amenity

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

New from Lewis and Clark

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

Yesterday's News

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

International Enrollment by School

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

Military Recruiting: The Lawsuits

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

Brevia

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

The Prankster’s Secret

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?...

The Rhodes Roster

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?...

Maestro of the Mat

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

Winter Sports in Progress

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...

Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond

Harvard Calendar

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

Almuni Harvardians far and wide

Of Software and Apples

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...

Enjoying the Endowment

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

Harvard@Home: Four New Programs

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

An Offer She Couldn't Refuse

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

Off the Record

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