Word: iowa
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...created the Peace Corps, alongside the President who was inspired by J.F.K. and created AmeriCorps (which, under the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, will triple in size) and the new President who has been talking about national service since he was a candidate in the snows of Iowa...
...important to remember that a lot of people on our team are freshmen and sophomores, so we’re a young team,” Geloneck said. “[Yale] had a lot of experience on us.”Harvard will head to Iowa for the Drake Relays coming up next week. This will be the Crimson’s first appearance in the prestigious meet, and both the men and the women are looking to make a good impression at the national level.“We’re always preparing...
...declare yourself as a fiction writer, especially with no prior publication,” the Pforhzheimer House tutor says. As an undergraduate, Bennett attended Deep Springs College and finished his B.A. in English at Harvard University. He received his Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is earning his Ph.D. in English at Harvard this year. His dissertation is on the rise of creative writing programs after World War II. He is currently working on his second novel.“Writing fiction while doing a graduate degree in English is probably...
...David Plouffe: I think the unsung heroes of the presidential campaign were all of our millions of grassroots supporters who made this victory happen. We had sound electoral strategy in both the primary, which was to try to win Iowa and win delegates from as many places as possible and in the general election. But your success starts and ends with the candidate, and we had a unique candidate who met the times...
...it’s hers.” After graduating from Harvard, Ganeshananthan went on to work at The Atlantic Monthly, returning to her budding novel after work each night. She then went on to graduate with an Masters of Fine Arts in fiction from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, where she received more feedback on her novel. Ganeshananthan continued to work with her editor and old friend, Rebecca Shapiro, and by its publication in 2008, the story had been transformed. “It was very, very different,” she says. One of the main...