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While Harvard touts its expansion into the nether regions of Allston as a veritable triumph for modern education, many residents, students, and community members see the University’s trek as something more sinister: a Harvardian version of manifest destiny. To them, Harvard’s expansion asserts that if the price is right and the buyer well-endowed, then the homes, histories, and communities of poor people can be bought up, bulldozed, and replaced with shiny new classrooms, biotech labs, and commercial start...
It’s shortly after 6 p.m. on a Friday. As many students are gearing up for a few drinks before heading out for the night, I grab my instrument and start the trek over the bridge to the Bright Hockey Center, ready for a different type of pregame...
...their daughters Penelope, 4, and Sabine, 7 months. With temperatures in the 20s, Kim eventually left the road and climbed down a hill. Had he kept walking in the direction the car had been headed, he would have found a lodge a mile away. Instead, after a horrific circuitous trek, he died a mile from where he had left his family. Kati, who ran the car for heat until the car battery expired and breastfed both daughters, was rescued with the girls after a helicopter pilot spotted her waving an umbrella...
...When he told his mother, she told him modestly that he has “great genes, so it’s better to have more of [James] out there than random other people,” he recalls.In quiet, but in numbers, Harvard male undergrads are making the trek out. “Every single guy I’ve ever told that I did it has said ‘Oh that’s so stupid!’ And then in private ask me about how to get involved,” Steve says...
Barbara Kingsolver’s “Prodigal Summer” is one of the few books that makes the 700-mile trek to Harvard with me every year...