Harvard Boulevard
Once upon a time, America’s oldest university dispatched its graduates to the well-known worlds of the East Coast: Wall Street and Washington, law, medicine, and journalism. Then, nearly a century ago, a few risk-taking outsiders, iconoclasts, and eccentrics ventured west to the unsettling new frontier of the movies. Today, Harvard and Hollywood are inseparable. From William Randolph Hearst to Natalie Portman, here is a map to Harvard’s stars.
Poking Facebook
Is the man many are calling Harvard's next Bill Gates telling the truth?
Public Affairs: The Scandals List
Harvard hanky-panky.
A Million Little Writers
Welcome to the world of celebrity academics - and the behind-the-scenes scribes who help make their fame and fortune possible.
Our second annual list of the most influential alumni.
Man on a Mission
02138 visits with Al Gore.
Blinded by Science
James Watson on Harvard's science crisis
Raising Harvard
Want to make sure that you child gets into Harvard?
Harvard Law: The Musical
Who ever thought law school could get this glamorous?
Lady in Waiting
As Drew Gilpin Faust prepares to take office, Richard Bradley looks at her surprising rise to power-and wonders what the new president really believes in.
The Rejects
Every admissions office gets it wrong sometimes. Here's our list of Harvard's biggest mistakes.
A Few God Men
The father of intelligent design, Phillip E. Johnson, was a Harvard man. And so were George Gilder and Bruce Chapman, former liberals, who helped him take the idea mainstream.
The Mitt Romney You Don't Know
He’s a super-rich, right-wing, carpetbagging, Olympics-fixing blue-state governor with two Harvard degrees who’s running for president. Got that? Meet the real Mitt Romney. Faust
The Search for Harvard's Next Leader
The inside story on how the Corporation's second choice became the next president of Harvard.
Good Sex
When pornography and philanthropy get together, everyone goes home feeling great. Phil Harvey’s new-generation enterprise.
What Harvard Taught Barack
At the Law School, Barack Obama learned to pick his battles, make as few enemies as possible, and press for real-world change. Can that same strategy take him to the White House?
Power Couples
Whether their eyes first met across a crowded classroom in Cambridge or their paths crossed by chance years later, these Harvard-Harvard duos all earn high honors in chemistry.
The Healer
Once again, Derek Bok has become president of Harvard at a time of crisis. But can he—or anyone—heal the wounded university?
Unstrung Heroes
Over the past 20 years, physicists have built up an imposing scientific orthodoxy around a compelling—and unproven—set of postulates they call the "Theory of Everything." Now, from the bottom floor, one mathematician is trying to shake the foundations.
The Parallel Universes of China
Mark Leong's photographs of contemporary China capture the surreal coexistence of dazzling development, environmental devastation and the yawning gap between city and country life.
Rising: Rashida Jones
The daughter of legendary music producer Quincy Jones and Mod Squad actress Peggy Lipton, Jones used to say she wanted to be the first black Jewish woman president. Barring that, a little acting, modeling and producing is tiding her over for now.
Harvard 100
Harvard's influence is both wide and deep. Once you start trying to measure it, you can find yourself feeling giddy and reverential at the same time. In the end, we singled out people who made us think differently, and zeroed in on those who just made a difference. Golden illustration 1
The Z-List is the New A-List
Pulitzer Prize-winner Daniel Golden’s analysis of Harvard admissions reveals both embarrassment and riches: The children of big-donor alums are systematically given preference over legacy offspring of lesser means.
