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...search for Paul D. Wolfowitz’s successor as president of the World Bank, Harvard graduates are taking center stage. At least four people with Harvard ties—Robert B. Zoellick, R. Glenn Hubbard, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ’77, and Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61—have garnered media speculation as candidates for the post, and Secretary of the Treasury Henry M. Paulson Jr., a graduate of the Business School, is heading up the search process. Wolfowitz announced he would resign earlier this month after a protracted scandal...
...Granta magazine’s “Best Young Novelists,” Uzodinma C. Iweala ’04, is venturing to Columbia’s medical school next year. But he has no plans to stop writing. “My next book is non-fiction, about HIV/AIDS, so I need to mature as a writer before I tackle something more difficult,” he said. Iweala’s first novel, “Beasts of No Nation,” is the fictional story of a child soldier in an unnamed West African country...
...writing discussed in workshops is never considered finished. The process can be challenging for workshop participants, particularly because the courses are focused on constantly tweaking and improving one’s work. “It’s not about the grades,” says Uzodinma C. Iweala ’04, a creative-writing-workshop veteran. “You’re really trying to go for something else. You can just perform to a certain level in other courses. In creative writing, you have to do your best.”“It?...
...Friday, there will be a panel discussion entitled “Redemption Songs: The Relationship between Black Art and Activism in the 21st century,” sponsored by BAF, the Black Students Association, and the Institute of Politics. The panel will include talks by guest speakers Uzodinma Iweala and Chandra Ortiz, and will be moderated by Lecturer on History and Literature and Quincy House Resident Tutor Timothy P. McCarthy ’93. On the same day, the film, “Keep on Walking: Joshua Nelson, The Jewish Gospel Singer,” will be shown...
...this harrowing first novel by Iweala, a 23-year-old recent Harvard grad, a young boy is swept into a pitiless world. In an unnamed West African nation, the boy, called Agu, is seized by a band of rebel soldiers and initiated into their way of life. Soon enough he learns to loot, burn and butcher other humans like a man, all the while struggling not to become a heartbroken monster. He tells his story of unspeakable terror in a halting, not quite comprehending voice that will stay with you for a long time...