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When asked later what she thought of Petersen’s speech, Faust replied, “I thought he spoke his mind. Was that creative unruliness in action? Perhaps. I thought he was great.” To disagree—to revere tradition and pomp over student participation—is to do a greater disservice to our new president, to ourselves, and to the Harvard that we should be constructing together...
...guest editor for the book, was joined by Heidi Pitlor, the editor of the series, and Jim Shepard, Karen Russell, and Richard Russo, who each contributed short stories to the anthology. The editors and writers focused their discussion on short stories and read excerpts from the compilation. King spoke briefly about his experience as a guest editor and said that short-story writing is becoming a lost art. “I always feel like an evangelist for the short story,” King said. “We’re gunslingers,” he said...
...year after winning the Nobel Peace Prize for creating a bank which hands out tiny loans to rural Bangladeshis, Muhammad Yunus spoke about using microfinance to combat poverty...
...thought he spoke his mind,” she said as alums and notables crowded around, eager to shake her hand. “Was that creative unrulinesss in action? Perhaps. I thought he was great...
...music, and I’m in a castle, and I’m not on drugs.” While the crowd had dwindled by then, those who remained seized the opportunity to mingle with the artist. Spektor enthusiastically took photographs with students, signed autographs, and even spoke on students’ cell phones to their friends. “It was really cool to have a personal and kind of strange encounter with Regina at the door,” said Olivia G. Volkoff ’09. “It was cool how she played along...