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Willard Christopher Smith Jr. hatched his scheme for global supremacy at 16, after his first girlfriend cheated on him. "In my mind, she cheated because I wasn't good enough. I remember making the decision that I will never not be good enough again," he says. Sure, he may have overcompensated, but how else are movie stars made? Smith grew up the second of four children in middle-class West Philadelphia; his parents Willard and Caroline divorced when he was 13. From his father, who worked seven days a week running a refrigerator company, Smith inherited his work ethic. From...
...These kids do not turn on ABC Nightly News, so it works for the students because they can get some political information.” The collaboration is a sign that Facebook is taking on a new role by promoting political discussion on its network, said John G. Palfrey, Jr. ’94, the executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and a professor at Harvard Law School. “It would be a very good sign for American politics if we saw more young people engage in political discussion,” he added...
Kennedy School of Government professor Graham T. Allison Jr. ’62, who helped arrange Gorbachev’s appearance, said the former premier is likely to be cautiously critical of some of Putin’s policies...
...father, Bryan C. Barnhill, was less impressed by the swank trappings than the Spee’s history. John F. Kennedy Jr. ’40 was once a member...
...list of early contributors to “The Atlantic Monthly” demonstrates the close ties between Harvard and the magazine at its founding in 1857. Writers for the first few issues include Lowell; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., class of 1861, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, class...