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...person, Colbert is quite unlike his braying pundit. He's soft-spoken and reflective--tweedy, almost--and the father of three young kids. (His show persona, he says, wouldn't be a good dad. "The kids have to be more important than you.") Born in Charleston, S.C., he studied theater at Northwestern University and then did improv work with Chicago's Second City troupe--a pursuit, he says, not unrelated to his childhood addiction to role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. He also developed a news habit. As a young actor, he would stay up until 4 a.m. watching...
...that account, Summers called West into his office and proceeded to criticize his work, questioning the scholarly value of West’s 2001 spoken word album “Sketches of My Culture” and requesting that West check in regularly with him about his research. West got up and left, and with his departure to Princeton, Harvard’s once ascendant Af-Am Department started on a quick path to dismemberment, losing five major professors in four years. Today, the fractured program is changing and sprouting new blossoms. West, meanwhile, is the same guy he always...
Kwame Owusu-Kesse ’06 raves about his course in the West-African language Twi. “It’s the language that’s spoken at my home, but I was never taught it,” he says. “And now I might have an opportunity to actually communicate with my family in a way that they would love...
...thoughtful and soft-spoken Seidel casts off suggestions that his approach is too academic. He says he sees his candidacy as a “public service...
...Ariel” Jeong ’07 and Mathew J. Kan ’07, the HRO began the night with the solemn opening tones of the patriotic Lincoln Portrait. Copland’s music, which incorporates motifs from American folk songs and the spoken words of Abraham Lincoln, was narrated by Dean Gross, a former HRO member...