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George L. Walsh, former captain of the Harvard University Police Department, possessed an alarming capacity for generosity—sometimes even at the expense of his children??s comfort. On his morning commutes to Harvard, Walsh would periodically embarrass his children by stopping his car to offer rides to strangers standing along Mt. Auburn St.—he knew bus stops were especially fertile places to find people. “Dad, what are you doing?” daughter Barbara J. Walsh remembers asking her father on those morning trips. The genial former police captain...
America’s most successful children??s education show is still hitting all the right notes. This past Wednesday, just after the president’s health-care address, the 1-2-3 Gang hosted a candid conversation on PBS about job loss, housing woes, personal responsibility, and the importance of family and community. The message was wonderfully uplifting and unclouded: With honest hard work and each other’s help, we can get back to those sunny days...
...Sesame Street, this resounding theme of inclusive community, although empathetic, is not part of an over-idealistic naivete of which the show is too often accused. Although the program has some fanciful overtones—as any children??s program should—the challenges of Sesame Streets are honest and real...
While some may write off this interaction as simple children??s idolatry, the impact of Harvard athletics is even more evident on older Cambridge sports-lovers...
...first remembered it, and as it was before I got here,” said Lotman. While looking through local bookstores for up-to-date histories of Harvard Square, Lotman could only find “musty old things” and “children??s books.” When he was not able to find what he was looking for, he decided to create one himself, he said. Lotman then conducted interviews with local merchants, street performers, and Harvard graduates, including John H. Updike ’54 and former Mass. Governor William F. Weld...