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...sound. He is also quite an underrated jazz master and musician that really deserves the honor.” Everett and a committee made up of several people from the Office for the Arts at Harvard and the Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music Ingrid Monson chose Roy Haynes from the top of their list. “Roy Haynes is a living legend, a walking history of Jazz,” Everett says. Growing up in Boston near Long Wharf, Haynes “just about played with every major innovative artist since 1945, and he keeps...
...group). A 2008 TIME 100 honoree and finalist for this year's list, Zuma may not be the prototypical figure to restore order to the beleaguered party of Nelson Mandela-or to guide a nation beset by poverty, violence and AIDS. But he's the man South Africa chose...
...crucial point, though, is that even the communists suspected that torture can't be relied on to produce more than false confessions--because people will say anything to make the pain stop. This is the history that Bush officials chose to ignore. I asked a former CIA officer privy to the decision-making that led to the waterboarding of al-Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah whether he thought the abusive tactics worked. His answer: to a degree. From the interrogations of Abu Zubaydah, Mohammed and other al-Qaeda prisoners, the CIA learned a lot more than it knew before about...
...Soon, e-mails became phone calls, official visits, thick envelopes. Witt chose to play in Cambridge, realizing that football could allow him access to a Harvard education. He would be the first person from his high school to attend Harvard: “Where I come from,” he says, “people didn’t even take Harvard seriously—not in an academic sense—but in the sense that it was never even mentioned that you could dream of going to Harvard.” Witt laughs before recalling...
...first of all, it’s really nothing serious. I don’t want to alarm anyone.” He had ignored the condition for years but the transition to college prompted another chance to consider his options.“The reason I chose Harvard was because I wasn’t really sure how far I could go with basketball when I got into college,” he says. “When I got into Harvard, you know, it was like I should definitely give it a try, but after a long decision...