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...Magazine in 1994, and last year, U.S. News and World Report called Khazei one of “America’s Best Leaders.” According to Joseph J. McCarthy, the senior associate dean and director of degree programs at the Kennedy School, Khazei was invited to speak at the conference because of his success in service. “There are still great public service visionaries in this country,” McCarthy said. The Kennedy School hosts the conference each year, giving students a three-day crash course in public policy careers from speakers and workshops...
...enough and too much. The barrage of quotations can sometimes be overwhelming, and it is often difficult to keep track of the different voices—including Barrett’s, which is absent for the majority of the book. Though there is a virtue in letting his characters speak for themselves, Barrett’s interpretation as an objective non-Muslim could have further illuminated the American Muslim community. When he does insert his own views, they often appear as one-sentence assessments of the impact of the characters’ actions on the “struggle...
...lives, what really brings the suffering home in this story and tugs at the heartstrings is not the gruesome descriptions of a brutal nightmare, but the shocking simplicity of Deng’s and his friends’ dreams, gorgeous fantasies of having children who will “speak English as Americans do,” the choice of different colors for shirts and shorts, bowls of oranges, or a bed of their own. Inevitably, the decision to cast Deng’s story as a work of fiction comes into question, and one wonders if it somehow implies...
Norman K. Mailer ’43, one of the world’s most eccentric and widely acclaimed authors, might have required two canes to walk into First Church in Cambridge last Thursday, but once he began to speak, he needed no one’s aid to keep the audience mesmerized. Though ostensibly there to speak about his new novel, “The Castle in the Forest,” the two-time Pulitzer winner weighed in on everything from Adolf Hitler’s genitalia and Hillary Clinton’s buttocks to the Iraq...
...tour of China and Japan, which was amazing. But at the same time, when you’re by yourself for a month, it’s difficult to go out and decide, “Alright, I’m in Beijing, I don’t speak a word of Chinese, I don’t know my way around the city, it’s kind of scary, but I’m just going to go out and see what people should see,” rather than, “Oh, what...