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...many are looking for a way to go back home, to work through their own childhoods.”In class, Tatar is both erudite and whimsical, eliciting quiet attention and gleeful laughter. Yet, as students left her lectures last week, no one would own up to considering a career in children’s literature. “It seems so easy to write, theoretically, but I’m scared children wouldn’t actually like my work,” says Leah D. Seifu ’11. The difficulty for Elizabeth Ryznar...
...Kennedy School typically asks its commencement speakers to discuss the value of a career in public service, according to Joseph J. McCarthy, the director of degree programs. He speculated that Sebelius may have been selected in part because of her connection to the Department of Health and Human Services, an area in which Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood ’75 served during the Clinton administration. McCarthy added that Sebelius’ policy interests coincide with many hot topics at the Kennedy School, such as education policy and health care...
...knew he found something that was really special.” Kincaid found the thesis exceptional enough to send it to her agent. HarperCollins then picked it up and published it in 2005. But according to Iweala, having this early success hasn’t made his career choice any more clear. “I remember walking into a bookstore and seeing it and thinking, ‘What do I do now?’” he says. Currently a student at Columbia University Medical School, the 26-year-old works on a book about HIV/AIDS...
...rock star, an astronaut, or a firefighter. While other kids were still picking their noses, Ganeshananthan was already thinking about fiction. When Ganeshananthan entered Harvard in the fall of ’98, she already knew she wanted to be a writer. This knowledged helped focus her academic career. “I wanted to write a creative thesis and the only way I could do that was in English, so I knew I wanted to be an English major and get certain grades,” she says. Under the guidance of Professor Jamaica Kincaid, Ganeshananthan completed her creative...
...During his impressive educational career, became friends with Al Gore (while at Harvard), Bill Clinton (while a Rhodes Scholar) and Hillary Clinton (during his years at Yale Law School...