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...March 25, O’Brien returned to Cambridge—he once studied in Harvard’s Ph.D. program in government—to speak in celebration of the book’s 20th anniversary. O’Brien’s speech at First Parish Church Meetinghouse elicited both laughter and tears as he discussed the lasting influence of a work written, as he said at the event, “to help readers feel something about what it was to be a foot soldier in a long-gone war in Vietnam...
...balanced skiing and school, and the first week in April I got my acceptance letter from Harvard that Wednesday, and my nomination letter for the [Paralympic] Team that Friday,” she recalls. “It was a great week...
Caitlin H. Sarubbi ’12 was not supposed to live through the first days of her life. But today, at age 20, she has become a world-renowned skier who just finished competing in the 2010 Paralympics...
...discovered skiing several years during a trip to Colorado, where her father, a New York City firefighter, was being honored after the September 11 attacks. There, when Sarubbi clicked into her skis for the first time, she says she “immediately fell in love with...
Last weekend, Boston University’s Agganis Arena was overrun with robots taking part in the Boston FIRST Regional Robotics Competition. Fifty-three enthusiastic high school teams, decked out in beads, buttons, and crazy hats, cheered as their creations competed in a game called “Breakaway.” Robots kicked soccer balls into goals, climbed onto towers, and lifted themselves up in teams to advance to the world championship next month...