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Broadcast journalist and writer Jim C. Lehrer will deliver the ceremony’s keynote address and receive an honorary degree from the University. Lehrer currently anchors “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” on PBS and covered the Senate Watergate hearings with colleague Robert MacNeil—a collaboration that earned the duo an Emmy Award...
...journalist who has spent the better part of 28 years in the corridors and chambers of the nation’s highest court, Harvard Law School’s (HLS) Ames Courtroom must have been a more comfortable setting than the flooded Holmes field. Linda J. Greenhouse ’68, a Pulitzer Prize winner, addressed the grads-to-be at the Law School’s Class Day, drawing from her experiences as a reporter covering the Supreme Court for the New York Times. “I could tell you that rule of law is hanging...
...thus give them more impact, and the focus on the female sex as a whole triggered by the women’s rights movement.After four years on The Crimson, I understand the desire to try to explain subtle social changes to readers. One of the jobs of a journalist is to identify and explore societal undercurrents, especially if they are difficult to discern. But overzealously applied, this aim leads to the inflation or wholesale creation of trends in an effort to make individual incidents have some broader social significance.These trend stories are notoriously difficult to substantiate—for every...
This winter, several Harvard professors opened their mailboxes to find anonymous, unmarked envelopes.Enclosed were copies of “How Harvard Lost Russia,” an article by veteran investigative journalist David W. McClintick ’62 in the January issue of Institutional Investor magazine. In 18,000 words, the spellbinding narrative detailed the University’s effort to reform the Russian economy in the 1990s—and the fraud scandal that resulted. The U.S. Department of Justice alleged that University employees who steered the project violated their federal contracts by making personal investments...
...reached her trillion-dollar conclusion, Bilmes says, is “a reflection of the fact that worldwide a lot of people had a feeling that this [war] was costing a great deal more than had been totaled up.” As well as fielding questions from journalists around the world—including a special interview with an Italian TV journalist Bilmes called the “Oprah of Italy”—Bilmes has also met with politicians interested in her conclusion. She briefed two potential Democratic presidential candidates—John Edwards and Mark...