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This year’s rankings include a broad spectrum of characters—some fictional—ranging from Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to rapper Jay-Z to Mark E. Zuckerberg, the former member of the Class of 2006 who founded Facebook.
According to the clubs’ etiquette of silence, Barnhill declines to name his club on the record. But it’s common knowledge in the Harvard social scene that he’s a member of the Spee, founded in 1852.
The last two decades have not given the people of Afghanistan much to smile about. Since being invaded by the crumbling Soviet Union in the 1980s, the nation has seen the collapse of a puppet communist government, the ravaging of its lands by militant groups called mujahideen, and the rise...
One windy afternoon nearly 150 years ago, Harvard professor James Russell Lowell, class of 1838, started on his daily walk from the University to the offices of the magazine he edited. As he crossed the Charles, a sudden gust disrupted his routine—and that...
“The people who founded it founded it with the idea that Boston had developed the first American literary culture,” says Ellery Sedgwick III, ’64, who wrote a history of the magazine and whose grandfather, Ellery Sedgwick, class of 1894, was the...