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Paint for Peace, another effort between Art Street and the City of Boston, promotes peace in neighborhoods affected by gun violence among children and teenagers. Mayor Menino first outlined the problem to Guillemin three years ago; Guillemin then rallied artists and sent them into Boston’s most dangerous neighborhoods. The artists worked with children in after-school programs to create banners and flags that publicly displayed statements about the good parts of their neighborhoods. They also painted doves of peace on sidewalks where killings had occurred. The effort reached its peak two years ago when 1,200 schoolchildren...
...went to the archives and found names of old debaters. I sent out some e-mails. The archives have a folder for nearly everything, including Policy Debate. There were fliers from the ’50s advertising debates on nuclear weapons (again!), Richard Nixon as president, the abolition of the House Un-American Activities Committee, the treatment of the Irish by the British government. There were fraying newspapers mentioning old national champions. There was even a form sent by the secretary of the Debate Council, in 1947, to other universities for the purpose of organizing the next year?...
They had remained close over the years. They were meeting up in Virginia within the month. For a decade they have collaborated on an “alternate history” project (e.g. if Hitler had declared peace with America). They sent me over 7,000 words, and I can’t begin to pick what to include: the fact that they argued way back then that global warming was a real phenomenon? That they and their fellow debaters go to each other’s weddings and anniversaries? Or: van rides back to Cambridge over Thanksgiving singing Christmas...
...headline “Ex-Graduate Student Alleges Misconduct” and realized that the story concerned my department, one faculty member in particular, and a graduate student who has not been at Harvard since 2007, I was astonished. The story concerned the contents of an e-mail sent by the former graduate student to a large number of undergraduates. The numerous allegations in the e-mail and on the accompanying blog have no basis in fact...
...opportunity for a grand gesture may be developing in the most unlikely of locales: the Middle East. Obama has sent a special envoy, George Mitchell, to launch negotiations, but the Mitchell process has moved slowly and seems to be slouching toward catatonia. The Israelis have refused to freeze their illegal West Bank settlement-building; the Arabs have refused to make any gestures toward recognizing Israel's sovereignty until such a freeze is imposed. Deadlock. At the same time, though, there is the rarest of Middle East commodities - some actual, tangible good news - beginning to bubble up on the West Bank...