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Franklin speaks quickly, punctuating his sentences with a hearty and unthreatening laugh in between his ironic or hyperbolic one-liners. For example, he says, “you have to be, like, Phi Beta Kappa and God” to get a Harvard-Cambridge scholarship, explaining why one of his friends didn’t receive the fellowship...
...child of mine is going to be taking some kind of music,” Wiprud says with a laugh. “You have a choice what kind of music, but knowing as much as I do about music education and children’s development, I feel like I would be an abusive father to not let them do music.” Wiprud’s two children—Allegra, 13 and Marlon, 10—both study the guitar. Allegra also sings and recently retired from the New York City Opera, where she sang...
Harvard has bandits. They’re bundled between the pages of cryptic, bland reports about the curricular review; they lurk behind the provost’s wresting away faculty control of grants; they laugh as departments defend themselves after falling out of favor with Mass. Hall. The secretive, non-participatory, top-down processes brought to Harvard by the current administration threaten a key principle of university governance: those who lead the University’s intellectual life, the tenured women and men of Harvard, are best suited to make decisions affecting that intellectual life...
...being through all of these things I had in Hollywood, like special effects, unions, wardrobes, actors, directors, and huge budgets, there’s something kind of nice getting back to that improvised, Junior Common Room feeling where pretty much all that matters is the words that make everybody laugh,” Borowitz says...
...When I was a junior in high school, my father said, ‘You should apply to Harvard. They have a Latin speech,’” she says with a laugh...