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...known as such an exacting critic yourself?JW: Actually, torture. One would think that the experience would get better. That rather, like childbirth, you’d learn how to deal with the pain.10. FM: In your (CM) forthcoming novel, there’s a section about an old man moving to a retirement home. You’ve suggested that this might feel like living in a college dorm again. Does Harvard’s social scene really seem that bad?CM: I don’t know if the Harvard situation is that bad. Although, the retirement home...
...Like many facilities at Harvard, the House system was a gift. Unsurprisingly, it was a gift from a wealthy white man. Surprisingly, this particular man was a Yalie named Edward Stephen Harkness. With millions from his shares in the Rockefellers’ golden swan, Standard Oil, Harkness was a philanthropic plutocrat in the tradition of Carnegie, Mellon, and Rockefeller himself. After being rebuffed by Yale, Harkness came to University President A. Lawrence Lowell in the fall of 1928, offering over $3 million to build a residential college system that would “bring into each group men from different...
Unless, that is, your industry of choice is holding talks called, "Fallen Sky." Today, the Shorenstein Center at the Kennedy School hosted New York Times media columnist David Carr, a man who knows a thing or two about rock bottom, to discuss the future of the journalism industry in the middle of the financial free fall...
...centuries-old debate over a person's right to die, usually in cases of painful terminal illness, is currently grabbing headlines with the arrest of four members of a group called the Final Exit Network. Authorities say the four helped an Atlanta man commit suicide last June, which, if proven, would be a violation of Georgia state...
Dame Agatha's Digs. Agatha Christie fans can visit Greenway, the mystery writer's beloved summer home in Devon, England, which is now open to the public. The bedrooms, drawing room and dining rooms of the house that inspired Dead Man's Folly have been carefully restored to their 1950s state by the National Trust. If you'd like to stay overnight, you can even rent one of two cottages on the grounds. Greenway Road, Galmpton, near Brixham...