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...Kennedy School of Government’s JFK Memorial Park, a total of 513 degrees will be conferred, including 294 Master in Public Administration (M.P.A.) degrees, 57 M.P.A. with concentration in International Development degrees, 157 Master in Public Policy (M.P.P.) degrees, and five Master in Public Policy and Urban Planning (M.P.P./U.P.) degrees...
...wrestling team and an Olympic hopeful; another was a rowing standout. My two roommates are a star on the women’s lacrosse team and a varsity basketball player. Cumulatively I have spent many, many hours trying to scamper across that precarious crosswalk at the intersection of JFK Street and Memorial Drive in order to watch them excel at their respective sports...
...most iconic presidential photographs are both profoundly personal and indelibly historic. They belong, all at once, to the subject, the photographer and the public. Think of JFK stooped, exhausted over his desk in the Oval Office during the Cuban Missile Crisis, or of a disgraced Richard Nixon waving, both hands raised, boarding the plane that final day. Did Democrats capitalize on images of Nixon's impeachment? Of course. Did Republicans publicly question Kennedy's maturity and ability to handle the Soviet threat? Absolutely...
...most successful and memorable Harvard sports years ever, and it’s not even over yet, thanks to baseball, tennis, track and others. But as this is my last column of the year, let’s take a trip down memory lane (a.k.a JFK St.) to the athletic accomplishments of the year past...
...culminating in the March on Washington. Anderson deftly moves from the terrifying street-level violence, such as the brutal Birmingham marches, into the backrooms where squabbling amongst competing organizations continually challenged the success of all their efforts. Several fascinating sequences imagine, with reasonable guesswork, the private conversations between JFK and MLK. Where more scholarly biographies could give us little of such moments, Anderson's novelistic approach allows us to feel the chemistry between these two indomitable, yet morally nuanced, characters. As the book goes on the artistic advantages of this approach become more clear. "King" goes beyond history to examine...