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...level and it speaks volumes about the wrestler Louis is,” O’Connor says. “It shows that he is absolutely in the hunt to win a national title.”The prospect of such a feat, which would allow Caputo to join John Harkness ’38 and Jesse Jantzen ’04 as the only national champions ever to don crimson, could consume the focus of any athlete. While the senior undoubtedly has the potential to achieve this goal, the humble All-Star deflects too much individual attention...
...latest development in the school’s strategic planning process and follows the appointment of Thomas Michel ’77 as the new dean for education this June. Previously, only one dean was responsible for all education programs at the Medical School. Golan and Michel will now join Dean for Medical Education Jules L. Dienstag to start implementing recommendations proposed by the strategic planning advisory groups. Flier said in a wide-ranging interview this fall that he intends to present the results of the strategic planning process to the Harvard Corporation—the University?...
Harvard Kennedy School professors Sarah B. Sewall ’83 and John P. White joined President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team last week, making them the latest in a long line of Harvard-affiliated appointments on the team. Sewall joins the team after having advised the Obama campaign on foreign policy and national security issues since 2007. She currently serves as the faculty director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, the Kennedy School institute once directed by former Obama campaign adviser Samantha Power. The agency review working group that Sewall will head is charged...
...wish I could say that I humbly refused my friend’s offer to join him in trying out for the “Family Feud: College Edition.” My time at Harvard has ingrained in me the fields worth participating in—volunteerism, academia, journalism, art—occupations that enrich society through positive change, truth, humor, and beauty. Being on a game show is just not one of those noble pursuits. I thought improving the world somehow completely defined me; That was a lie I told myself. I wanted...
...part, have one common trait. They were altruistic. They wanted to be part of something larger than themselves. So in that sense they were seekers, but in the main they were hard-working, functioning individuals who had lives that were ordinary in most senses. They had a need to join an organization where they were doing something meaningful. Keep in mind that this was in the post-civil rights and post-Vietnam eras, and a lot of young people, in particular, and older ones, too, were looking for some outlet for their desire to do things for their fellow...