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...Like computers, the news itself was scarcer during our pre-CNN, pre-Web college years. The Crimson newsroom of our era was dominated by the AP machine, a chest-high teletype that pumped bulletins into our midst by stamping upper-case letters onto an endless, Kerouacian scroll. During the Iran hostage drama that dragged on for what seemed like half our time at Harvard, Jim Hershberg ’82 would hover over the machine through the night, awaiting some hopeful breakthrough or awful denouement. Occasionally the bell would ring to announce some report of special note—though...
...that same circle surrounding the Yard, there is a vulnerable group of people, perhaps living in public housing or on the streets, for which life’s daily challenges are endless. Their jobs, if they have them, don’t pay enough to make the rent. Their health may be fragile due to inadequate health care. Their children or grandchildren are at risk. Their future is bleak...
...Yard, it is easy to imagine that within a two-mile radius, there are historic homes, multimillionaires, labs with scientists researching cures for cancer, and technology companies working to make our world faster. From the perspective of that history and entrepreneurial spirit, the possibilities for a positive life seem endless...
...can’t not identify with the character and write them well,” Scott says. Don Sakers, author of science-fiction novels such as “Dance for the Ivory Madonna,” writes in an e-mail that he is fond of the endless mornings sitting in Scott’s kitchen brainstorming ideas for science-fiction stories. “We would start with an outlandish idea—such as, what if there were an alien race whose life cycle literally followed Freudian psychology?—and beat it back...
...almost all the ICS men couldn't wait to retire, collect their pension and get back to Britain. Yet once home, a strange fondness for India would often afflict them, and they would spend their evenings sunk in a club chair with a gin and tonic, boring everyone with endless tales of the Punjab...