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Kennedy seemed to delight in telling audiences the opposite of what they wanted to hear. Amid the era's taut racial tensions, he spent more time asking white audiences to step into the shoes of aggrieved blacks than he did pandering to their desire for law and order. In Clarke's passionate retelling, Kennedy seemed to know what lay ahead; he ran his race with such disdain for safe politics, it was "as if this campaign might have to serve as legacy, and epitaph...
Surprises, by their nature, come in disguise, masked sometimes as disappointments or detours when they're in fact dreams turning solid, if you'll just step aside and give them some air. It is actually in the official graduation rule book that someone has to quote Emerson to you, so in case everyone else forgets, I would note his instruction to "mount to paradise/ By the stairway of surprise...
...with an honorary membership in the Class of 2008 by First Class Marshall Alexander J. Tennant ’08, spoke briefly on the advantages of leaving University housing behind and the tasks ahead of the graduates.Summers, who recently returned from a week in Israel with his wife and step-daughter, recalled attending the 18th birthday party of a friend’s child during the trip and hearing the teenagers discuss their impending conscription into the armed forces. (Israel requires men and women to serve time in the military upon reaching the age of majority.)Speaking before a crowd...
...engineering division into a school of its own.“It was really his energy, his vision that helped convince the Corporation that this was good thing to do,” Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith said in a recent interview.After 10 years, Venky is stepping down as the leader of Harvard’s applied science programs.“He is going to be dearly missed,” said Harry R. Lewis ’68, a professor of computer science and former dean of the College. “There isn?...
...empty bottle of Veuve Cliquot champagne from the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) nestled in Kramer’s office among flowery artwork and copies of Plant Cell magazine is the only remaining evidence of her step from one of the least secure occupations in academia to one of the most...