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Kapuscinski was a globalist too - and one of the most intrepid reporters since Herodotus. Before his death in January at age 74, he had been jailed 40 times, witnessed 27 coups and revolutions, survived four death sentences, contracted tuberculosis, cerebral malaria and blood poisoning, and was once doused with benzene and nearly set ablaze. "I was driving along a road from where they say no white man can come back alive," he wrote of that incident, in war-torn Nigeria. "I was driving to see if a white man could, because I had to experience everything for myself...
...notebooks and cameras at the ready. The protest had been organized in a day, after that morning’s edition had broken the news that the Harvard Corporation was planning to hold on to its shares in banks linked to South Africa, news that an intrepid reporter had gotten by climbing into the dumpster outside the University printing plant out past the football stadium...
...that storing their belongings was not so simple. In June, they blissfully, yet somewhat naively sent their prized possessions off to Box Limbo. Their “junk” was lost and for three months Collegeboxes remained indifferent to their plight. But like vengeful Norse gods, a few intrepid Kirkland residents led an all-out war against the company—which ultimately proved more successful than their thus-far embarrassing efforts at CEB Risk. Predictably, their efforts were followed by the passage of righteously indignant legislation by our august Undergraduate Council (UC) (of course belatedly and only once...
Although many Harvard undergraduates covet jobs on Wall Street, a few intrepid students start trading early, seeking to make a profit from the market’s twists and turns during their college years...
...lugged dozens of pounds of cameras and equipment every which way, and developed their negatives (gasp!) with chemicals (with what?) in the “field” (the what?). This drudgery is now largely myth (much like secretaries who write in shorthand), propagated by chroniclers of the few intrepid adventurers who braved photography’s inconvenience for its verisimilitude . Janet E. and Frederick R. Wulsin, Jr., explorers with the National Geographic Society, were such mythical characters. Their photographs, a selection of which are on display in the Peabody Museum’s “Vanished Kingdoms...