Word: strangerness
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...been fired for gushing. “Well,” he muses, “it didn’t brand me for life.”IN THE LINE OF FIREYet as often as he has been on the blunt end of a pen, Simon is no stranger to sharp criticism. He recalls performing Noel Coward’s “Hay Fever” for a group of soldiers while he was a student at Harvard. Simon’s director individually circled the room, telling the actresses in his company that, “you?...
...Pangilinan holds the Crimson school records for both breaststroke events in Harvard’s yard pool and the Philippine national records in a meter pool. The Philippines, with Pangilinan’s help, was able to win the Games, earning a total of 291 medals. No stranger to international competition, Pangilinan also raced in the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke for the Philippines in the 2004 Olympic Games and picked up a 20th-place finish in the 200-meter event. —ABIGAIL M. BAIRD
RUNAWAY ALICE MUNRO A young woman on atrainis approached by a nervous stranger. She blows him off. Not long after, his body is found on the tracks. Life is made up of such miniature tragedies, and so are Munro's powerful and perfect short stories, which focus on restless women who know more about what they're running from than where they're going...
...work has played a major role in science and law in both the United States and abroad. She lectures and writes in the fields of human rights, comparative law, constitutional law, and legal theory, according to the NEH website. Although currently at HLS, Glendon is no stranger to Washington, having served on the President’s Council on Bioethics for four years. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and International Academy of Comparative Law and has served as president of the UNESCO-sponsored International Association of Legal Science. Appointed by Pope John...
Harvard is no stranger to controversy. Our President alone gets more press coverage than most earthquakes, and a handful of particularly colorful professors (you know who they are) fill in the gaps quite nicely when he’s behaving himself. The online community-edited encyclopedia Wikipedia cast a new sort of aspersion at our hallowed halls this past weekend, however: the neutrality of the article about Harvard was disputed. We aren’t by any means the first or the only article to be given this distinction. The ability to question the even-handedness of Wikipedia content...