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...Conan does not have an elitist bone in his body,” Reiff said. “He is as interested in what the book checker says as what some eminent professor says—and is open to the idea that the book checker might be funnier...
...third child of six in a big Irish Catholic family, O’Brien grew up in Brookline, Mass. with father Dr. Thomas O’Brien, a physician and Harvard Medical School professor, and mother Ruth O’Brien, an attorney. The O’Briens were incredibly “gracious and generous,” Reiff said, and frequently opened their home to their son’s roommates...
Even though she grew up around the world, Owada was more familiar with Cambridge than most Harvard freshmen when she moved into the fourth floor of Thayer in September of 1981. Her father was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School for the previous two years, and Owada spent her junior and senior years of high school at nearby Belmont High School...
Owada similarly used her academic interests in economics and politics to bring together her two cultures, including working as a research assistant translating Japanese documents for History Professor Andrew D. Gordon ’74 during the spring of her junior year. Gordon also served on the committee for Owada’s initial proposal for her economics senior thesis on Japanese-American trade relations in the 1980s, for which economist Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76 served as her advisor...
...finishing his junior year at Georgetown—though he is older than Rachel, he took time off from college to serve a Mormon mission in Mississippi—while Rachel translates research papers from Chinese to English and works as a research assistant to a Chinese studies professor at Georgetown. Next year, she will hold a one-year fellowship with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...