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Colby is the second of three guests invited to offer off-the-record answers to Nieman Fellows' questions about American intelligence-gathering. The others are Daniel Ellsberg '52 and Victor Marchetti, co-author of "The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence...
James C. Thomson Jr., curator of the Nieman Fellowships, said last night that "to keep it small," tonight's meeting would be open only to Niemans and their spouses...
Harvard yesterday named nine journalists from eight countries as this year's Nieman fellows...
Hemphill was a Nieman Fellow a few years back, and Harvard was not a particularly pleasant experience for him. "It dawned on me, after too many boring cocktail parties with too many terribly proper New Englanders," he says, "that what I was really missing at Harvard was the sweaty passion for life I had always taken for granted while growing up in the South." Being able to capture the sweaty passion is what sustains Hemphill as a writer, and as long as that passion holds out he will be able to rise above the mass of cliches that...
Harvard currently has several programs for bringing professionals to Cambridge. Through the Nieman Foundation journalists from across the nation spend a year's term here, both studying and, at times, giving informal instruction. The Institute of Politics attracts people involved in government who give extracurricular seminars in selected topics on current events. But the contact between these non-academicians and undergraduates takes place largely outside the channels of course work. If the University were to expand such programs and to permit people without a Corporation appointment to teach undergraduate courses, which it now prohibits, the instruction provided in a large...