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...Washington’s a few hours away, but Harvard recently became a similar ground zero for this belief in The Total Answer. The unexpected shooting of a Salem State student on campus a few weeks ago had an almost cinematic quality: start with a shocking, utterly incomprehensible act of violence, loop back to the origins of the event. That gunshot, ripping open a balmy May afternoon, exposed a network of campus drug use, undergrads both buying and selling. Students and police are still trying to piece it together, to tie together the shards they’ve been left...
Those of us who passed through the Dexter Gate four years ago “to grow in wisdom” would not have recognized those of us who depart today “to better serve [our] kind.” And more than any specific concentration or class, paper or professor, there is one lesson at the core of our transformation. As obvious as it sounds, Harvard has taught us to succeed. There is no need revisit the impossible odds associated with gaining admission to this college—such fortune should humble us. We have been taught...
...writing long-form stories. According to Giles, the conferences have always been well-attended, but a recent drop in turnout to the Conference on Narrative Journalism contributed to the Foundation’s decision to suspend the program. Participation dropped from more than 800 people a few years ago to around 500 last year. Despite the financial challenges the Foundation currently faces, Giles voiced optimism about the future of the Nieman Foundation’s narrative program. “We’re suspending it, not eliminating it, so we hope to get the program going again...
...Perhaps we should take a minute to pull out our magnifying glasses and try to find the party that governed not so long ago. To foreign observers, the present state of U.S. politics may seem merely amusing, but the problem is a serious one—no country can function well under an essentially uni-partisan system. Democracy can only work in an environment of plurality and of checks and balances...
...Four years ago, when I entered the U.S. for the first time, the campus reminded me in some aspects of a space colony. One of its most immediately puzzling aspects was political. I remembered reading what Naomi Klein had written in January 2000 about the American left: that it apparently “seemed surprised to learn that, contrary to previous reports, it did, in fact, still exist.” Although news reports tried to convince me that Republicans were in power, I saw very little Republican presence on campus, and didn’t know any personally. Although...