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...look to the words of Pope Benedict XV, the current Pontiff’s namesake, who in 1915 enjoined priests to support the Italian SPCA, “that they may offer to the animals refuge from every suspicion of roughness, cruelty, or barbarism, and lead men to understand from the beauty of creation something of the infinite perfection of their Creator.” Lewis E. Bollard ’09 is a social studies concentrator in Kirkland House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...telling the stories of men who ostensibly work for the President/Commander in an intimate though non-political capacity, shaving his hair or disemboweling crayfish for his dinner.Dovey emphasizes that while the creative seed of “Blood Kin” can be traced obliquely to her desire to understand current South African president Thabo Mbeki—whom she once sought to explore by interviewing his barber, his chef, and his portraitist—the project became something much more universal, and the figure of the President is in no way based on him. “It?...
...Inquart, the German commander of Holland during World War II, who was responsible for shipping nearly 100,000 Jews to their deaths in concentration camps. This acceptance of the humanity of war criminals is of vital importance to Forgács. “We can’t understand those who kill their neighbors if we don’t look at them,” he said. “Otherwise we would never see why these disasters are repeated in human history.” Although much of his interest in genocide was sparked by the Balkan...
...recent interview with The Crimson, Gessen discussed Harvard, critical theory, and the role that literature has played in his life. The Harvard Crimson: I’d like to start off by thinking about the somewhat strange and unsatisfying journeys your characters take to something approaching success and self-understanding. What were your post-collegiate years like?Keith Gessen: When I first got out of school I moved to New York and basically sat in a room and wrote stories. And then for work, I was a PowerPoint specialist at Morgan Stanley, but after about a year I began...
...really wanted to understand the student experience and try to make it better in new ways, be creative, and also understand what was going on in the students’ lives,” said Robert N. Shapiro ’72, a close family friend and member of the Board of Overseers, Harvard’s alumni-elected governing board...