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At first glance, I thought Harvard’s internationals were at fault for this gap. In the Woodbridge Society, an international students’ group that claims to be open to all, one very important nationality is conspicuous by its low representation. (Hint: it shares a name with two...
“I simply feel gratified that many years of hard work at Harvard have been publicly acknowledged,” said Thomas P. Wolf ’05, a history concentrator who learned of his election on Wednesday by University mail.
But Williamson believes the team learned an important lesson in defeat.
Everything--and nothing. "I always thought one day I would write a story," says Jones, a shy, round-shouldered man with a sly, infectious smile. "The first line is, 'You never get over having been a child.'" He laughs, but there's still hurt there. Jones had a tough childhood...
In 1992 Jones published a collection of stories called Lost in the City, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, and he started thinking about doing a novel. He was haunted by something he had learned in college: Before the Civil War, some free blacks in the South owned slaves. He turned...