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...When the 16-year-old Bhutto began at Harvard, she had her eyes on a degree in psychology, seemingly not interested in making politics an academic focus, said Anne Fadiman '74, a friend of Bhutto. But Bhutto's focus quickly shifted to government and she wrote a senior thesis on the origins of Pakistan, Fadiman said...
...Something got galvanized in her while she was at Harvard," Fadiman said. "The longer she spent away, the stronger her focus on Pakistan became...
...Anne Fadiman...
Each year The Best American Essays series collects some of the year’s most provocative writing under the supervision of such illustrious editors as Cynthia Ozick and Susan Sontag. This year, Anne Fadiman, editor of Phi Beta Kappa’s literary and intellectual quarterly The American Scholar, has put together a diverse selection of works on such subjects as driving lessons and animal rights. The Harvard Bookstore sponsors an event featuring Fadiman and a selection of the authors discussing the series and their respective works. 6 p.m. Free. First Parish Church, 3 Church Street...
...years she bowed to convention and broke off the relationship. Ironically, her subsequent 1960 marriage to society photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones ended in divorce in 1978. Once a heavy smoker, she suffered at least two earlier strokes and had recently been confined to a wheelchair. DIED. ANNALEE WHITMORE JACOBY FADIMAN, 85, screenwriter, World War II correspondent and co-author of Thunder Out of China with Theodore H. White, by suicide; in Captiva, Florida. Fadiman reported on World War II for TIME and LIFE magazines after her husband Melville was killed in a freak plane accident in 1942. DIED. ONG TENG...