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...success of the HRC’s scholarly strategy still relies on an ability to circumvent conflict with friendly conversation. I experienced this approach first-hand the first time I met Motley, over two years ago in Annenberg Hall. At the time, he was angling for a freshman position on the Undergraduate Council. I represented a potential constituent. We sat eating cereal and discussing Harvard’s same-gender rooming policy, on which we held opposing views. A nearby classmate, overhearing our debate, suggested that the longer Motley persisted with the conversation, the more likely he was to lose...
...Cotterill spent his first month in Laos in a hospital, where he quickly befriended the medical staff. He liked them so much, in fact, that after he recuperated, he took an apartment above the place. While living there, he got a first-hand look at the shocking dilapidation of the country's medical infrastructure. Years later, the experience would provide the inspiration for a series of charmingly offbeat mystery novels set in Laos and featuring a most unlikely detective: Dr. Siri Paiboun, the country's chief - and only - coroner...
...Head of the Charles. The fugitive poets—an invite-only group of foodies, ninjas, computer programmers, and writers—photographed their makeshift art installations to document the project for fugitivepoetics.com, which goes live in about a week. Experiencing “vigilante art” first-hand, we began to enjoy working with Fugitive Poetics, despite the contrived mystery surrounding them...
...McCain campaign invited me to visit Frederick and the Gainesville operation on Saturday morning, to get a first-hand glimpse of its ground game in Prince William County, Virginia, a fast-growing area about 30 miles from Washington...
...people like him that keep our press free and going.” Harvard Book Store staff member Heather L. Gain said the fact that Filkins is a loyal customer to the store was not the only reason they wanted to host the author. “Having a first-hand account is really a crucial way for us to understand what we read in the headlines,” she said...