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...about scientific processes. His first book is complete, and he is looking for an illustrator and a publishing company interested in his educational angle. Meanwhile, he is moving forward on a book about the carbon cycle in collaboration with published children’s author Claire A. Nivola.Gaglani stops short of envisioning a career in children’s books, though. “In general, I’m interested in communications. So I can definitely imagine doing this as a hobby,” he says.Marie K. Rutkoski, who received her Ph.D in English at Harvard, thinks differently...
...club,” Stack-Babich said. “We’re getting big hits when we need them and doing just enough to win.”Add a number of come-from-behind victories as well, and Harvard’s season has not been short on drama.Given the Crimson’s proven mettle in close games, nobody is ruling out a late-season surge to put the squad atop the Rolfe Division and into the Ivy championship.“We just want to make sure we can play up to our capabilities...
...worth it, which corresponded to writing a thesis,” Iweala says. During his junior year, Iweala had had the chance to meet former child soldier China Keitetsi when she came to give a talk to the Harvard African Students Association. While Iweala had already written a rough short story about a child soldier, Keitetsi inspired him to write something larger in scope. Iweala decided to set his novel in a fictional country in West Africa, but he felt that he had to understand the world of a child soldier before he could begin writing. He began reading texts...
Rahul Gandhi, heir to modern India's most storied family, touched down by helicopter and spoke for only seven minutes, but in that short stump speech to a friendly crowd in northern India's farm belt, he set out what he hopes will be a road map for a Congress Party victory in the general election that begins on April...
...trading in the traditional Franco-German partnership for closer ties to London. He also reached out to the internationally loathed and isolated George W. Bush, adopting the role of an adoring and trustworthy French friend. Sarkozy's group-hug address to the U.S. Congress in November 2007 was nothing short of a smash, as he waved off Chirac-era disputes over Iraq for references to America's sacrifice in World War II to promise "whenever an American soldier falls somewhere in the world, I think of what the American army did for France...