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...oddly inevitable, if you look back on it,” says Maya R. Jasanoff ’96, speaking out about her recent hire as an associate professor in theHistory department. Jasanoff notes that while she didn’t always have “an incredibly strong sense” of what profession she would pursue after college, academia “was always one of the options.” Following her post-doc work, Jasanoff taught at the University of Virginia. She applied for a tenure track position at Harvard in 2006. Jasanoff?...
Lawmakers sympathetic to the parents and guardians of older troubled children note that Omaha is, after all, home to the original Boys Town of Father Flanagan fame. In the city, there's a statue of one young boy carrying another on his back, with the words chiseled underneath, "He ain't heavy, Father, he's m' brother." During the Great Depression, parents would scrape together bus fare and hang a sign that read "Take Me to Boys Town" around their child's neck. Tysheema Brown, the Atlanta woman who drove 1,000 miles to Omaha to drop...
...night, we were lucky enough to catch the first-ever New Orleans Halloween Parade, which was amazing - as raucous, titillating and over the top as you might imagine - but it was hard to feel sexy while covered in greasepaint, and then in hives from the reaction to the greasepaint. (Note to self: next year, spring for naughty nurse outfit). The following night, however, upped our heat quotient significantly. We went to an old-timey club called One-Eyed Jacks (615 Toulouse Street; 504-569-8361) and saw a brilliant, theatrical band called Rock City Morgue and watched the beautiful burlesque...
...Coast Championships. The women’s team, sailing in Washington, DC, navigated heavy winds to place fourth, while rain, wind, and even snow couldn’t slow the co-ed squad in Geneva, N.Y., as the Crimson finished third. “We ended on an up note which is really great. I’m feeling pretty confident about what we can accomplish in the spring,” sophomore Grace Charles said. ATLANTIC COAST CHAMPIONSHIPWild weather led to a shortened slate of competition for the co-ed field, but Harvard stayed strong in the five-race...
Featuring a key-note address by a former CIA agent, traditional bánh-mì Vietnamese sandwiches, and a “sexual” poetry reading, the third summit for the New England Union of Vietnamese Student Associations brought together Vietnamese students from nine different schools in a two-day event hosted by the Harvard Vietnamese Association this weekend. “We tailored the entire summit program to expose students to Vietnam not only in terms of its history and culture, but also modern Vietnam in an economic and political sense,” said...