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Block, who has been with the daily evening news program she still co-hosts for two decades, was only partly joking. After receiving her undergraduate degree, the French History and Literature concentrator deferred her admission to Yale Law School for a year to study in Switzerland on a Fulbright grant. The following year, still harboring doubts, she deferred once more. And a year later, she tried to do it again...
...allegations lodged against the journalists are vague. But the real crime they committed was crossing an ever-shifting line of what the country's media can and cannot report, says Shawn McHale, a professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University who is in Vietnam on a Fulbright-Hays fellowship. Vietnam's economy has been growing rapidly for the last several years as the authoritarian government gradually embraces free-market reforms. Institutions like the press would like to see a similar lifting of controls and have increasingly been pushing the limits of government tolerance...
...want to do this you have to really want it and enough to sacrifice other things.’” TEACHING YOU TO TEACH YOURSELF For James F. Collins ’07, currently filming a documentary in South Africa on a Fulbright scholarship, the experience of being a VES concentrator was similarly eye-opening. A lifelong involvement with music and interest in photography paved the road for filmmaking. Collins says he learned all of his necessary skills and technique during his time in VES. “It was great to have the freedom to figure some...
Last month, one undergraduate sent in her application to the prestigious Fulbright Program as a junior. At least, that’s what her transcript said. Truth be told, Denise L. Delaney ’08 isn’t a precocious junior, but rather a disgruntled senior. Returning from a spring semester abroad in Colombia, Delaney was surprised with a host of unnecessarily complicated problems— and she wasn’t alone.Encouraging study abroad at Harvard was a primary initiative of former University President Lawrence H. Summers. Despite his relatively short tenure, his legacy remains to this...
...very high, very shiny penthouse. The family hears rumblings and grumblings from outside, but this all didn’t register until too late.”PERSONAL EXPOSITIONAlthough she must await reviews of her latest endeavor, Evans is no stranger to success.She has been honored with a Fulbright Award in Visual and Performing Arts, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, the Rella Lossy Playwriting Award, and the Weston Award in Dramatic Writing.Currently, Evans teaches introductory courses in playwriting and screenwriting at Harvard, and will teach advanced courses in each this spring.Although she did not begin writing plays until after receiving...