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After receiving a Bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1956, Lehrer enlisted in a three-year stint in the U.S. Marine Corps. Upon returning, he began his professional career working for The Dallas Morning News, and he later joined the staff of The Dallas Times-Herald. At 34, Lehrer became the paper’s city editor...
...women during the 1950s Mau Mau Revolt, a failed insurgency movement that set the stage for Kenyan independence. But there was no secondary literature. Elkins handed in her thesis and decided that if she ever went back to graduate school, she would investigate these detention camps.Following a brief stint on Wall Street, Elkins arrived in the Yard to begin her graduate studies in history and the search for an untold story.CHASING CHALLENGESWhile most research relies on existing records, Elkins’ project was propelled by gaps in the record.Encountering destroyed files and a government-imposed 50-year silence, Elkins realized...
...held a series of positions at Harvard’s different schools. She has served as an executive assistant to the dean and an assistant academic dean at the Kennedy School of Government, the dean of students at the School of Public Health, and is in her second stint as director of international admissions at the College. According to Teresita A. Bjelland ’76, who was a pre-business resident tutor in Worth’s entryway her sophomore year, Worth has used her position to reach out to students around the world...
...incarceration. In April she opted to go to jail rather than do 240 hours of community service after she got nailed for drunken driving in Hawaii. She was sentenced to five days in an Oahu prison but spent less than three behind bars. She began a two-month jail stint last week in Los Angeles (the Hawaiian incident violated her probation from a 2004 hit and run) but was released less than five hours later. She still has to do 30 days of community service, though. Maybe, since it has worked out so well twice, she should ask for more...
...know that many of us were drawn to journalism for the thrill of public service in taking on demagogues in a time when a shadow had come over the country.”This dedication to public service is evident in Rosenthal’s career. After a stint at The Oregonian as a news and sports reporter, he became a speechwriter and special assistant to Robert F. Kennedy in 1961, and then later a press officer for the State Department. He returned to Harvard in 1967 as a Kennedy Fellow at the Institute of Politics...