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...Food is an extremely interesting subject,” says Harvard alum Jeffrey L. Steingarten ’64, food columnist for Vogue, frequent judge on the Food Network’s “Iron Chef America,” and acclaimed food essayist. “It’s certainly more important than sex. If you want to know which subject is really more interesting to the human race, just fast for 36 hours.”Over the past few decades Harvard has taken the message behind Steingarten’s comments to heart. Formerly...
Thomas E. Perez, who is also a Kennedy School alum, will work with the Justice, health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, and Housing and urban Development departments. Clark Kent Ervin ’80 will review Department of Homeland security transition issues...
...overstate the influence in Obamaland of CAP, a group with roughly $25 million in annual funding from mostly anonymous individuals, corporations and unions. Podesta himself is leading Obama's transition effort, holding press conferences to speak for the President-elect, with an operation beneath him filled with CAP alum. The transition's operations director, the general counsel and the co-director all have come over from similar jobs at the think tank. At least six other CAP alums or board members, including Daschle and former EPA Commissioner Carol Browner, continue to advise the transition or campaign on matters of policy...
...timeline, FM takes a look back at how other recent historical milestones affected our social life. Title IX (1972) Female athletes start to balance out the female nerds. This creates negative side effects for Wellesley girls, as they get displaced by the tougher competition. HIV Awareness (1980S) As one alum from the 70s recently explained, “Let’s just say things were a lot looser before AIDS.” I’ll leave it at that. Drinking Age Changed to 21 (1984) This was undeniably devastating, but there is a bright side: it makes...
...role at other institutions, such as Yale and Princeton,” he says.Last April, several members of the Task Force took a field trip to Yale, touring the university’s artistic spaces and meeting with various deans, according to the Yale Daily News.Greenblatt, a Yale alum, was reportedly impressed with his visit. “Yale has for a long time had a very deep and serious engagement with the arts,” he told the Yale Daily News in April. “It is a model for how a university can take arts-making...