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Duncan M. Currie
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FDR Got It Right...
Herbie Haupt was the first of six Nazi agents to be electrocuted in the District of Columbia jail on Aug.
The U.N.'s Paladin at Harvard
Perhaps the most famous (or infamous) commencement address of the past century was delivered in Tercentenary Theater some 26 years
Immigration and E Pluribus Unum
You don’t have to be Pat Buchanan’s gin partner to admit that Weatherhead University Professor Samuel P. Huntington has offered
Cells, Embryos and Justice
So it turns out Harvard won’t be falling behind in the great stem-cell race after all. Last week, Cabot Professor
The Scariest Place on Earth
Poor Bruce Cumings. Familiar with him? He’s the University of Chicago professor who recently came out with a literary apologia
Our China Chimera
Much has been made of the fact that Meghan C. Howard ’04 interrupted Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during his speech
Revoking Stalin's Pulitzer
In the annals of 20th-century journalism, few names are more ignominious than Walter Duranty. The New York Times’ Moscow correspondent
In Defense of Bush's AIDS Policy
A conservative Republican simply cannot do right on the issue of HIV/AIDS—or at least that seems to be the opinion
A Commitment to Excellence
This coming May, a very special group of seventh-graders from Texas will be visiting Harvard. Conventional wisdom has deemed that
Dr. Yang's American Freedom
I had the privilege last Thursday of speaking with Dr. Yang Jianli’s wife, Christina Fu of Harvard Medical School. Yang,