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...Their rice-and-bean meals are varied only when they're near a river or an area where wild pigs roam, and they often fight illnesses like hepatitis with only poorly trained nurses to treat them. (The FARC refuses visits by Red Cross medical teams.) Pinchao, 37, says Stansell taught him how to swim during river-bathing sessions - a skill that later helped him escape. Stansell also tries to keep the hostages' spirits up. "Keith even learned how to tell jokes in Spanish," he recalls. Like Stansell, Gonsalves and Howes have children in the U.S. Howes, from Massachusetts, has eased...
...Core Office has relaxed requirements for faculty applying to have their departmental courses count for Core credit—even a small course taught by a visiting professor can now count, Lewis said...
...center’s lobby, a fully-functioning storefront that sells everything from glass eyes to message bottles. In addition to his volunteer work, Feeney became one of the first students to enroll in 826 Valencia’s after-school programs. He remembers an early workshop that Eggers taught on magazine publishing. “I believe I was the only student in attendance, besides an older man who sort of wandered in off the street,” Feeney writes in an e-mail. Eggers was far more than simply a figurehead for the program; he was deeply...
...Watching TV shouldn’t be something to be ashamed of; it should be something to appreciate—a medium unique from any other. So don’t be afraid to say you do watch television, or that it’s made you understand more, taught you things you didn’t know, moved you. That’s what art does. And television is art.—Columnist Allie T. Pape can be reached at pape@fas.harvard.edu...
...students stop to consider who occupied Old Yard, but an examination of Harvard’s past reveals a history of entanglements with slavery—a history that is just now coming to light because of a four-person research seminar taught this fall by History professor Sven Beckert...