Misunderstandings and missteps on the path from Communism to a new social order
by Timothy J. Colton

COVER ARTICLE An archive of studio photographers' work reveals the contented--and cloistered--assumptions of middle-class American life in the 1950s How will new technologies, a wave of aging patients, resurgent cost pressures, and public policies transform medicine, doctoring, and the care you receive? A Harvard Magazine roundtable Brief life of a relentless innovator: 1909-1991 by Victor King McElheny Harvard scholars discern signs of economic, political, and cultural change in the sub-Saharan nations by Matt O'Keefe Memorial Hall recrowned, major initiatives in the life and physical sciences, portrait of a pacifist, University Campaign challenges, a tenure decision on trial, drinking and the final clubs, how the Arnold Arboretum's gardens grow, Radcliffe's role, geographer memorialized, money managers' rich rewards, "The Undergraduate" brings home to Harvard, Rhodes and Marshall Scholars, hockey heroine, and a roundup of winter sports Also, check out our current Classifieds, or browse our archives of issues going back to May-June 1996