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Midway through her sophomore year—shortly after declaring her special concentration—Han left Harvard to further pursue this interest, spending four months of spring 2009 in Bangladesh, where she helped develop a pilot protocol for ridding water of arsenic and bacteria...
Like Han, Michael T. Henderson ’11 also created his own special concentration. After taking Harvard Medical School Professor Paul Farmer’s class on global health the fall of his sophomore year, Henderson says that he “couldn’t get enough...
...unprecedented and record-breaking year for our basketball program, due to the hard work of our players, but also due to the incredible atmosphere and energy that you created in Lavietes Pavilion. We had sellouts! We had White Outs and Black Outs! It was a very special thing to see, and we are truly grateful. I hope you had as much...
Similarly, the contention that humor’s right to free speech should not be protected but that news or some purely informational medium should enjoy that special protection is an unnecessary and specious privileging of one form of expression over another. Rights are indiscriminate and should not be subject to the weak claim that the work of a Pryor, Carlin, Wilde, or Maher is a lower form of speech than journalism. Much like other types of expression, there is valuable humor and humor that is less so—but all of it deserves to be protected...
Instead, I was falling into a perennial pattern I’d set for myself, one which subconsciously made me feel special because it was something others remembered me for. For six years now, going places on an extended version of Harvard time has been my trademark...