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...revel in my obscurity. After all, if you’re famous, it’s much harder to get away with stuff like stealing teabags from the dining hall. Besides, most of the so-called celebrities at Harvard were more infamous than famous and were forgotten about by the time a new shopping period rolls around. In the immortal words of somebody great, “Fame is a matter of dying at the right time.”Okay, so I read that off another Salada tea bag—the message still stands. Even those...
...There are many examples of so-called fixers—the people on the ground who help get journalists where they need to be to get the stories and the pictures that make headlines—being forgotten after the foreign correspondents have gone home. Why aren’t fixers credited and protected more scrupulously? I was told that people like Mohammed know even better than the journalists they are helping what they are getting themselves into. After all, doesn’t Mohammed live there? Reports and rumors I’d heard of police brutality he?...
...hard truth is that it's been 40 years since we have led a sustainable effort to fight for economic justice in this country. We had many successes and failures in the 1960s, but we've forgotten the most important lesson: in order to end poverty you have to make it a priority. Well, if Moses was able to find the Promised Land after 40 years in the desert, then certainly we can renew the cause after wandering...
...Four decades ago when Bobby Kennedy took a tour of the forgotten places in America, the image that lingers with me is him bending down and touching a young child whose stomach was swollen from malnutrition. He did not look away. He did not accept things as they are. He saw things as they could be and asked...
...seems like getting to that last point by way of a largely forgotten 100-year-old sonnet is counterintuitive, bear with me, because it’s completely appropriate. Before this year began, I had no idea that I would be preparing to put myself before a class of middle schoolers and try to teach them math, of all things. As a person who stutters, the idea of teaching younger students was something that had never occurred to me, something that I would have said was simply beyond me. I went through Harvard with vague ideas of graduate school (while...