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...Philip Bennett ’81, now assistant managing editor for foreign news, will take over Jan. 1. The current managing editor, Steve Coll, will depart to work on book projects...
...Bennett, 45, has a rich background in foreign reporting, an interest he said was first piqued by a dinner in Winthrop House. While running the Harvard chapter of Amnesty International, he hosted Buenos Aires Herald Editor Robert Cox for dinner, and Cox told Bennett and his roommates about the detainment of reporters during the years of the “disappearances” in Argentina. After leaving dinner, Bennett aid, he knew he had to go to Latin America as a journalist...
...Harvard, Bennett ran track and cross country and contributed to the Harvard Independent and Harvard Magazine, he said. But he called his “most meaningful experience” taking a course called the Uses of History, taught by Warren Professor Ernest R. May and Dillon Professor Richard E. Neustadt at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Bennett became a case writer for them, and May served as his thesis advisor...
...They changed the way that I looked at understanding history,” Bennett said. “It was very easy...to make the leap to documentary journalism and its importance in influencing how people see the world. I apply those lessons almost every...
...drums, Charlap has built on that blueprint in a succession of beguiling and acclaimed CDs on the Blue Note label. Written in the Stars (2000) samples Porter, Gershwin, Irving Berlin and Harold Arlen, among others. Stardust (2003), on which the trio is augmented by such guests as Tony Bennett and guitarist Jim Hall, is all Hoagy Carmichael. The best so far, this year's Somewhere, focuses on the theater songs of Leonard Bernstein...