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Amid a constantly changing landscape, our guide Hossein led us up giant boulder-strewn hillsides and past juniper trees to the 2,500-m Tizi Mezik pass, only to drop sharply down again into a mineral-rich valley of red earth and terraced villages. The next morning - with a night's snowfall caking the red soil and pines - everything looked different again. As we hiked up a final ridge, muleteer Ali Baba (he assured us that was his name) used the opportunity to pelt everybody with snowballs, a prank I hadn't expected to experience in North Africa...
...honor of the recent crop of Harvard authors making it big, FM decided to sit down with a few to see how they did it. Bridie J. Clark ’99, author of “Because She Can”; Simon H. Rich ’06-’07, author of “Ant Farm and Other Desperate Situations”; and Keith A. Gessen ’97, one of the founding editors of the print journal “n+1,” sat down with FM and confirmed that our degrees...
...Simon Rich: Well, I spent all of college writing jokes at the Lampoon about animals and video games. By the end I didn’t really feel like I was qualified to do anything else...
Between his first and second bursts of gunfire, the Virginia Tech gunman mailed a package to NBC headquarters in New York containing photos of him brandishing guns and video of him delivering an angry, profanity-laced tirade about rich kids and hedonism...
...said the package contained an 1,800-word diatribe and 29 photos, 11 of them showing him aiming handguns at the camera. Much of the rant is incoherent and filled with obscenities. He rails against Christianity and the rich...