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...influence on Harvard,” said David Blackbourn, current director of CES. Throughout his career, Hoffmann’s personal experiences in Vichy France catalyzed his scholarship. “He wore the tragedy of the 20th century on his shoulders,” Bass said. Outside the classroom, Hoffmann sought to break down the barriers between the ivory tower and the real world. In spite of seeing the dark side of politics, Hoffmann maintained hope for the future and instilled in his students a sense of social and political responsibility. As a result, during the turblent 1960s, Hoffmann...
...high-school prospect in the country] they looked me and my family in the eye and said, "We're going to help you be the best you can be-as a football player, but also as a scholar. We want you to do the best you can in the classroom as well." They've allowed me to miss practices for labs, allowed me to miss meetings for pre-med classes. I know when I won, they were elated. My teammates have understood the whole way that I'm a student too. These are the guys you sweat with...
...Hundreds of people pour in from the road or strain at the wire mesh that separates the school from the tract of temporary housing it adjoins. There is barely room to stage the songs and dances that the children have so assiduously rehearsed. When Li and Versace tour a classroom, they do so while amazed farmers press faces at every window. Those who can't get close shove mobile phones through the bars in the hope of capturing a grainy memento. As the stars emerge, they find themselves in a perilously crowded courtyard of people and paparazzi. There are three...
...tall, so he has to look down to talk to almost everyone. He wears white tube socks under his black Nike flip-flops and carries his large frame deliberately, like a gentle overseer. "You see all these lockers? None of them work," he says. "This classroom over here is supposed to be for home economics, but it's never been fixed...
...functioning better. "All the children are wearing their uniforms," he says. "No kids are in the hallways." If you come to school without your uniform on, a security guard or an assistant principal will "snatch you up and just send you home." All the computers in his Microsoft Word classroom now work...