“I try to tweak perceptions,” the artist Maya Lin says of her work. True to form, Lin had the audience

This is the second article in a four part series. Part 1: For Harvard, Luring Students Is All in the

This is the first article in a four part series. Part 2: Recruiting a New Elite Part 3: Byerly's Eye

For a constituency traditionally ignored by Cambridge politicians, Harvard students played a surprisingly influential role in last night’s city elections.

It was supposed to be simple. Two years ago, as Cantabrigians headed to the polls on Election Day, observers predicted

Jesse Gordon, hands planted firmly in pinstriped pockets, shoulders hunched and neck atilt, peers out at the dozen or so

It’s not unusual for Harvard’s politically inclined students to spend a weekend rallying in Virginia or canvassing New Hampshire to

One case of faculty misconduct could cost Harvard much more than prestige. Jones Professor of Economics Andrei N. Shleifer ’82

It was a semester of bad headlines for University President Lawrence H. Summers, but nothing a little Photoshop couldn’t fix.

Hours after news broke widely that constitutional scholar Laurence H. Tribe ’62 had copied verbatim a 19-word passage in his