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...Vogue, frequent judge on the Food Network’s “Iron Chef America,” and acclaimed food essayist. “It’s certainly more important than sex. If you want to know which subject is really more interesting to the human race, just fast for 36 hours.”Over the past few decades Harvard has taken the message behind Steingarten’s comments to heart. Formerly a marginalized field at the college, the culinary arts now enjoy a more significant presence on campus. In 2007 alone, the Harvard Culinary...
...think it shaped [my career] in terms of encouraging a certain promiscuity of taste,” Zwick said. “In the repertory theater one does Shakespeare one day and Sam Shepherd the next. And the idea that I might be interested in more intimate human drama and at the same time more epic and theatrical pieces I think is a legacy of that.” His new film “Defiance,” about Jewish resistance during the Holocaust, combines Zwick’s dual interest in epic storytelling and intimate human drama...
Docherty has been fighting cluster munitions since 2001, when she was hired by Human Rights Watch after graduating from the Law School. Her first assignment after the Sept. 11 attacks was to research the impact of cluster bombs on the war in Afghanistan. She said that it was this work in the field that gave her a true impression of how dangerous the weapons...
Among those “exhilarated” activists was Bonnie L. Docherty, a lecturer at Harvard Law School and instructor at the Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic...
Traditional diplomatic organization like the United Nations have played no role in recent efforts, according to Docherty. Instead, a group known as the Cluster Munitions Coalition, which has over 300 members—including Human Rights Watch—from 80 countries, has been influential in creating the treaty...