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...harder to play Walter Lee on Broadway than on TV? -Alex Traum, Bellmore, N.Y.It was. I never did any live theater or had a starring role-it was at such an infantile stage of my acting career, and I wasn't as experienced as the other actors. I knew I had to take other extremes, so I built the set in my living room. I wanted to live in the surroundings I was going to play...
...Harvard Kennedy School announced yesterday that Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first elected female head of state in Africa, will deliver the school’s graduation speech on June 4. Johnson-Sirleaf is a 1971 graduate of the school’s Mason Fellows Program, a mid-career masters in public administration. She has served as Liberian Finance Minister and held high-level positions at Citibank, the World Bank, and the United Nations Development Programme. Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood ’75, who extended the formal offer, said doing so was an easy decision...
...Worse, a student newspaper beholden to shareholders will have a hard time justifying expenses for certain services, programs, and social activities that make working for a college paper rewarding. Programs such as financial aid, social events, or career workshops with professional journalists would be a tough sell. The Collegian will cease to be a true student group and function more like an on-campus job opportunity—except that writers would likely continue to work without...
...Although it could encourage more career diversity, OCS cannot be entirely to blame for this exodus—looks like the Core Office remains the only dungeon on Dunster Street. After all, they’re just responding to demand. In the end, the accountability for this culture of careerism rests with us, the students. Traveling and research fellowships abound, but they receive far fewer applications than Morgan Stanley, in part because no one knows about them, but also because they can’t compare to a coveted step up the corporate ladder. Volunteer programs, summer school, Harvardwood...
...remember him recall a unique if not unparalleled talent. Rob Reiner’s reflection best captures the feeling of loss: “It’s a real tragedy when someone so talented dies, because you don’t know on the early part of their career what more they could offer...