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When Linda J. Greenhouse ’68 became the first female reporter sent to the Albany bureau by The New York Times, she was “quite shocked” to find that women could not attend the main social event on the calendar—a show...
Memorial Church resounded with the sound of hymns and fond tributes last Wednesday at a service in remembrance of longtime Harvard professor and influential economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who died April 29 at the age of 97. Hundreds of well-wishers showed up to fill the pews of Memorial Church...
Nicholas Daniloff ’56 says Harvard did not prepare him for the challenges he would face in his professional life. Perhaps that’s because his long career as a journalist would take him away from the ivory tower and into the dungeon of a jail. “Harvard fell down for me in that it was not very good at preparing students for anything other than further education,” Daniloff says.But what undergraduate education prepares a student for enemy capture?In 1986 while working as a correspondent for U.S. News and World Report...
Who could write the songs. Before Dylan, the decades-long Tin Pan Alley division of labor between singer and songwriter held sway. Dylan's success (and the Beatles') convinced every vocalist he was a poet, and every tunesmith an Elvis. Except in Nashville, the profession of songwriter disappeared. Whatever the...
But asking Edmund Brown Jr. to give up politics is a little like asking the Rolling Stones to quit rock 'n' roll. It's just what they do. Brown is a rock star himself. The son of a storied California Governor and a veteran of nearly four years in a...