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...Throughout his long career on the team, playing alongside Harvard basketball greats such as leading-scorers Bob D. Ferry ’85 and Joe D. Carribino ’85, Duncan remained focused on the social issues that he witnessed growing up in Chicago. In 1986 he took a year off to return to his hometown to write his sociology thesis, eventually titled “The values, aspirations, and opportunities of the urban underclass...
...After Harvard, Duncan played professional basketball in Australia for four years. Though he never hit it big in the NBA as he had originally hoped, basketball nonetheless paved the way for Duncan’s later career. In 1981, John Rogers Jr., CEO of Ariel Capital Management and a former teammate of Duncan’s in a Chicago three-on-three basketball league, offered Duncan a job managing Ariel Community Academy, a charter school funded by the business. From there, Duncan went on to manage the Chicago city parks. He was eventually tapped to run CPS by Paul...
...Craig proved to be a stellar student, displaying the conscientiousness and academic dedication that has characterized his professional career as a lawyer and politician. A history concentrator who graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Craig learned quickly how to separate work from fun and received the Lionel De Jersey Fellowship to study at Cambridge University...
...spirit, even as a young guy, to identify a public value, and go to work in it. He figured out how to give it bearing, and push it ahead,” says Hammond. “And I think that’s been a hallmark of his career, where he’s practiced that in a variety of forms, whether in courtrooms, in international forums, in Congress, or on the floor of the Senate...
...course, students need not serve directly in government to be conscientious citizens. There are many venues by which students have already embraced and are enthusiastically answering the call to service: Interest in nonprofit careers and programs such as Teach for America has steadily increased at Harvard in past years. But all conscientious citizens, regardless of their personal and career choices, must also recognize that recruiting motivated and talented public servants is critical to the efficiency and effectiveness of our government...