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In 1961, less than a year after graduating from Harvard College, Michael C. Rockefeller ’60 joined the Peabody Museum’s 1961 New Guinea Expedition as a sound recordist and photographer. Shortly after the expedition, Rockefeller disappeared in New Guinea while on a personal trip to...
I went to Egypt this summer to learn how to speak Arabic. What I learned instead was how to cover up, to be invisible, to preserve my “moral reputation.”All I wanted was to learn the language that would let me break through the...
Moreover, this argument has much broader potential consequences, because, according to the Guttmacher Institute’s studies of worldwide abortion rates, only a small fraction of abortions occur despite consistent birth control use (i.e. the pregnancies come as a complete surprise to the women involved). Thus, only these abortions...
The psychological phenomenon of overcompensation is well understood in the realm of psychiatry. Humans often attempt to negate what they perceive as unwanted personal traits by exaggerating their opposite. Talk a guy into feeling emasculated, and he’ll likely respond with hyperbolic fits of macho behavior. He might...
Loyalty is considered a paramount, honor-among-thieves virtue by political practitioners in both parties. It certainly trumps honesty or creativity. During the Clinton impeachment imbroglio, the Democratic consultant-entertainer James Carville wrote an entire book, titled Stickin', celebrating those who stuck with the boss. But loyalty was a one...