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THE CENTER OF THE WORLD The Middle East and western Asia are again, as ever, at the center of the world: the birthplace of recorded history...

January-February 2005

Features

Into the Inferno, with Notebook

Ragtop down, a spectacular view of San Francisco Bay and the city below suddenly opens up for two seconds as we tear around another bend...

by Craig Lambert

Paradise Lost?

Five thousand years ago in the Mesopotamian marshes, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in southern Iraq, the Sumerians began history. They...

by Christopher Reed

Militant about "Islamism"

"It's a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian...

George Ticknor

By today's standards, Harvard College before the Civil War was a provincial academy, competent (judged Henry Adams) at preparing students to...

Thinking Small

From quantum materials design to “voodoo physics” in the nanoscientists’ weird world

by Jonathan Shaw

RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas

Toddling Consumers

For generations now, critics as well as poets have debated what relationship, if any, poetry has to rational thought. The majority view is that...

Oyster Environmentalists

Once so degraded that residents avoided touching the brackish water, the 106-acre Wilson Bay in Jacksonville on the North Carolina coast now...

Down and Out in Paris and Boston

Outgoing North Carolina senator John Edwards wasn't the first person to notice the Second America, which he described in a primary campaign...

John Harvard's Journal University news

The Sweetest Season

Harvard's 35-3 demolition of Yale at the Stadium on November 20 was the crowning moment in a football season of peak performances: a perfect...

Global Health Aims HIGH

After a year of consulting with fellow faculty members, the steering committee of the newly named Harvard Initiative for Global Health (HIGH...

Tenure and Gender

Thirty-two photographs hang on the curving wall along the spiral staircase that connects the economics department offices in Littauer Center...

Crimson on the Hill

Harvard's Capitol Hill alumni (defined for this exercise as graduates of or matriculants in a degree program) will drop from 42 members in the...

More Magical Moments in Store

"The single most beautiful and pristine moment of my three years at Harvard Law School (or possibly my entire life) occurred on that frozen...

Exit Gray, Enter Keohane

Corporation member Hanna Holborn Gray, Ph.D. '57, will step down from the President and Fellows of Harvard College...

Arts and Sciences Aspirations

The new academic structure created by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) in the summer of 2003 has yielded its twin first fruits. The...

"Reasonably Good" Fiscal Results

Further progress toward moderating the rate of expense growth, and stable revenue growth, yielded "reasonably good results" for...

Sources of Funding

Endowment income distributed for operations makes up the largest share of Harvard’s revenue: 31 percent in the fiscal year ended June 30...

Yearning for “Big Humanities”

Many of Harvard's leading humanities scholars convened on October 22 to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Humanities Center—and to...

Accomplished Contributors

The editors take great pleasure in recognizing three contributors to Harvard Magazine during the past year, awarding each $1,000 for their...

Yesterday's News

1915 Undergraduate protests against beer at class banquets prompt Bulletin editors to note that "the increase of abstinence and temperance...

Countering Alcohol

In the fall of 2003, dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross—once an undergraduate here himself—paused in his work as a...

Brevia

Biomedical PioneersGeorge Q. DaleyJustin Ide / Harvard News OfficeXiaoliang Sunney XieCourtesy Xiaoliang Sunney XieThe National Institutes of...

A Perfect 10

Routing Penn and Yale in the pivotal games of a history-making season, the football team finished 10-0, won the Ivy League championship, and...

Fall Sports Championships

Field HockeyThe stickwomen (11-7, 6-1 Ivy) won a share (with Penn) of their first Ivy title since 1991. The Crimson's 3-1 victory over the...

Homecomings

I think the enormity of my decision hit me when the plane flew out of Sydney airport and I watched the famous Opera House, its distinctive half...

Almuni Harvardians far and wide

NYPD Crimson

Edward Conlon '87 cruises the streets of the South Bronx in an unmarked car looking out for Angel, an 18-year-old drug dealer suspected in the...

Gathering Together

The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has events lined up in Cambridge, Los Angeles, and Mexico this winter.On January 22, alumni will gather in...

The Real Dan Fenn

Due to errors at the HAA, the entry about HAA Award winner Dan Huntington Fenn Jr. '44, A.M. '72, in the November-December issue contained...

Comings and Goings

Harvard clubs host gatherings all around the country. On January 21, for example, the Harvard Club of Cape Cod presents Menzel research...