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It’s 7:30 p.m. on Sunday. Students are having dinner, agonizing over all of their remaining work, and...learning how to fix storm windows? Practicing self defense? Ever since John G. “Sean” Palfrey assumed the position of Adams House Master ten years ago, he has offered weekly “Life Seminars” to Adams House students and affiliates, ranging from the practical (such as basic plumbing), to the indulgent (such as wine tasting), to the cerebral (such as an introduction to Italian opera). Depending on the topic and the time...
...speaks volumes about the wrestler Louis is,” O’Connor says. “It shows that he is absolutely in the hunt to win a national title.”The prospect of such a feat, which would allow Caputo to join John Harkness ’38 and Jesse Jantzen ’04 as the only national champions ever to don crimson, could consume the focus of any athlete. While the senior undoubtedly has the potential to achieve this goal, the humble All-Star deflects too much individual attention...
Harvard Kennedy School professors Sarah B. Sewall ’83 and John P. White joined President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team last week, making them the latest in a long line of Harvard-affiliated appointments on the team. Sewall joins the team after having advised the Obama campaign on foreign policy and national security issues since 2007. She currently serves as the faculty director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, the Kennedy School institute once directed by former Obama campaign adviser Samantha Power. The agency review working group that Sewall will head is charged...
Like a lot of the students it serves, the UC has spent much of its existence at Harvard trying to figure out exactly what it wants to do. The UC’s constitution was adopted in 1982, following a proposal by a student-faculty commission chaired by Professor John E. Dowling ’57 for an advisory student government. It would be funded by a universal $10 termbill charge. During its first year, the UC began disbursing funds to student groups, while trying to define its larger mission: whether to advocate for political issues, or to push...
Just four hours after being re-elected House minority leader, John Boehner sat down exclusively with TIME to talk about how he plans ti turn around the Republican Conference after a net loss of 50 House seats over the past two election cycles, who's to blame for the losses and why he's not a caretaker leader...