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Publications Range From Beethoven to Zoroastrian Texts

MORAL PHILOSOPHY GOES TO HOLLYWOOD Professor Emeritus Stanley Cavell recently published the book Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a


Professors Make Headlines in a Year of Discovery

Harvard professors juggle myriad activities. When they are not in class or at their office hours, they are often conducting


Finding Home at the Movies

It seems fitting that Mira Nair, the renowned film director and producer who achieved international acclaim with her hit film


Ferguson Readies for Harvard

One of the world’s foremost scholars of American and British imperial history is about to join Harvard’s empire on the


Feminist Theorist Dies at 57

Renowned feminist political theorist Susan M. Okin died last Wednesday, March 3, in her Lincoln, Mass., home. She was 57.


Popular Psychology Professor To Leave

A social psychologist voted one of Harvard students’ “Favorite Professors” for the past two years plans to leave Cambridge at


College Preps for Holiday Stragglers

Daniel U. Perez ’06 may not get to eat his favorite, pecan pie, this Thanksgiving. The expense and the distance


48 Seniors Elected To Honor Society

Forty-eight seniors were elected to the Harvard College Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa on Nov. 14 in the second of