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With the recent release of “Barackula,” a short online film in which presidential candidate and Harvard Law School alum Barack Obama fights off a hoard of HLS vampires, the real question on everyone’s mind is not who the Democratic presidential nomination will go to. No, what we really want to know is how other high-profile Harvardians might star in a monsterrific film of their...
...exposed to the whole college life in high school, got to take classes at Harvard, and explore the campus resources and the class formats,” Ada H. Lio ’11, a CSA alum said. “Before joining the program I had no idea what to do before going to college because my parents didn’t go to college,” she added...
...proposals. They walked off, and it’s up to them to tell us they have a response to those proposals.” For every writer in the streets with a Harvard degree trying to change the status quo, however, there’s a Harvard alum in a power suit trying to bring order to the chaos. Perhaps the most notable figure in the latter camp is Jeffery A. Zucker ’86, a former Crimson president who became CEO of NBC Universal last February. Additionally, senior vice presidents...
...emerge from New Haven. The Nobel Prize for literature’s international trend necessitates that neither Harvard nor Yale has had many literature Nobel laureates, but Harvard’s 1.5 still beats Yale’s singleton. Yale has 1930 prize-winner Sinclair Lewis, while Harvard alum T.S. Eliot ’09 won in 1948. Playwright Eugene O’Neill, who took the honors in 1936, attended Harvard for one year before dropping out. Both schools fare far better in terms of Pulitzer prize-winning alumni. Two-time Pulitzer winner David McCullough was an English major...
Natalie Portman ’03, the alum who made herself famous for starring in “Star Wars,” said microfinance has allowed women to “move out of poverty and to create hope in their lives” to a packed auditorium of nearly 700—drawn perhaps more by her star power than the subject. Portman’s appearance at the Harvard Business School yesterday focused on her work with the Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA), which provides financial services to the poor in developing countries, and was part...