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...Officers in the cell were drunk, abusive, and volatile,” Bakshi says. He managed to make a cell phone call to a Zimbabwean acquaintance, who in turn alerted the U.S. embassy and Bakshi’s family and friends. American diplomats and Leverett House Senior Tutor Judy Goroff helped to secure Bakshi’s release.Bakshi says that his experiences in Zimbabwe have been “terrifying but fabulous.” He’s interviewed opposition figures as well as officials of the ruling regime. And he has founded a nonprofit organization, Aina Arts, which...
...administration, thought that extension of Lamont hours was unnecessary—just one week before Librarian Buck announced the change. It seems the Council jumped on the wrong wave of history this time and got caught in the backwash. Under the leadership of their new Master and their Senior Tutor, the men at Kirkland House were experimenting. Early in the fall they began a tutorial program for science majors, designed to acquaint budding scientists with the philosophy of their subject. Latest reports have it that they are reading about expanding universes. Even professorial families may expand to keep pace with...
...FARWhen DrKW told Rana on May 24 that visas were disappearing fast, she worked hard to get her paperwork in order. She e-mailed her professors asking them to submit her grades early.Her professors were helpful and understanding, Rana said, as were her house master and senior tutor in Mather House. “As soon as the grades were in, we did get a letter for the registrar,” Rana said.But, she said, by that point it was too late.Graduating seniors Qicheng Ma, Sabrina E. De Abreu, Elisa M. Segovia, and Yue Zhou described similar experiences.Zhou says...
While Harvard students were busy cramming for their last finals, Cabot House tutor Myles G. Osborne approached Second Step, a rock face three hours away from the summit of the highest mountain on earth. But he never made it to the top—instead, he saved a man’s life. It was 7 a.m. on the morning of May 26, and Osborne and his team had been climbing for over seven hours since the night before. They were in their tenth week on Mount Everest, and it was their third attempt at reaching the summit. With...
...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.“She is relentless in her pursuit of making Harvard a possibility to those farther away and with no familiarity with the ‘American Dream...