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Rudenstine’s regret seems even more understandable considering his life-long love of the night sky. The New York City native has harbored a life-long curiosity for the mysterious expanse of the evening heavens. Rudenstine spent his childhood summers on Cape Cod where the calm, clear skies fed his fascination for the cosmos. “I’ve always loved laying back and watching the stars,” he says...
...highest-rated program, will be speaking to some of the best of America’s future lawyers today. In his speech to HLS’s graduating class, King says he will focus on taking risks, a theme that has defined his journey from a rough-and-tumble childhood in Brooklyn to broadcasting superstardom...
Before the end of World War II, her family moved again, this time to New York City, where just two weeks after arriving, Watkins was placed in boarding school. She says the transition, so early in her childhood, became a source of alienation. “I was completey in this American peer situation with almost no one to talk to in my language,” she says...
Just as during her childhood her family had shuffled from country to country, she began to move from professorship to professorship at universites in the East. Watkins says she chose to become a history professor because in her study of history and literature at Radcliffe, she found history more “honest...
Maddox describes her childhood in Bridgewater, Mass.—only 30 miles from Boston—as “a world away” from Harvard Yard...