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Each year more than 1,100 18 to 24-year-olds gather on five residential “campuses” around the nation. These young citizens spend ten months away from home as part of small teams working together on service projects. During these months, they share meals, challenges, and extraordinary experiences with each other. In the process, profound bonds are forged that transcend class, race, and region, building a genuine sense of national community...
...Boston Marathon may be more than a month away, but sixty members of the Harvard community are already racing to gather pledges for the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) and Project HEALTH. The Harvard College Marathon Challenge (HCMC), launched this year, picked participants from a pool of 500 people who entered a lottery. Those selected have been collecting pledges to benefit both social-service organizations. HCMC Fundraising Manager Charles J. McNamara ’07 said that many participants, which include students and staff members, are close to reaching their fundraising goals. Undergraduates must raise $500, and other participants must...
Shortly after he became our president, Lawrence H. Summers invited Professor Cornel R. West ’74 for a talk. I gather Harvard was paying West about a quarter of a million dollars a year. West, whom my classmate and friend Leon Wieseltier aptly described in The New Republic as “self-endeared,” had found time to make a rap CD that his own website touted as a seminal event in musical history. But he was frequently absent from Cambridge, and had published very little scholarly work. Many thought Summers’ request that...
...writers’ meeting for Arts, a weekly ritual where our editors and contributors gather to share story ideas. We are discussing this issue with its very promising “Guilty Pleasures” theme...
It’s that time of the year again, when all the stars of Hollywood, plus some sound editors and makeup artists, gather together to celebrate their own brilliance. The 78th Annual Academy Awards are this Sunday night, allowing the plebes to bask in the intoxicating aura of self-indulgence and questionably-dressed glamour emanating from...