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...Farewell to Falwell In "Jerry's Kids," Michael Duffy and Nancy Gibbs dismissed Jerry Falwell's influence and wrote him off as a ranting, Bible-toting demagogue [May 28]. Falwell's rich life was about 5% politics, with the rest spent preaching biblical truth and establishing homes for alcoholics and unwed mothers. But his greatest living legacy-aside from the massive Thomas Road Baptist Church-is Liberty University, a growing Christian college that has 100,000 graduates and more than 21,000 students. They will be his final tribute, bearing his standard for decades. As for Falwell's "politics...
...spent little time settling back in. While freshmen moved into the Yard in September, Bok decided to change how all future first-years would find their way to Harvard by ending early action admissions...
...Yanamadala’s outreach effort can be notably seen in his high school project where he designed a chemical filtration system to reduce the number of toxins dumped into the lakes outside Los Angeles. The system is now funded by the city of Torrance, Calif. Yanamadala has spent much of the last four years working at Harvard Medical School studying biochemical signaling pathways related to Polycystic Kidney Disease. The biochemistry concentrator can also count a Hoopes prize for his senior thesis and a masters in Chemistry among his academic accomplishments. In addition, Yanamadala has served as a teaching fellow...
...remember the night I decided to come to Harvard. My other choice was Carleton College, off in the cold woods of Minnesota, a spectacular environment not unlike the one where I’ve since spent most of my life. Harvard was too close to home, a 15-minute bus ride from Lexington where I’d grown up. I was leaning against, opting for adventure...
...event, fast forward a quarter century. Having spent most of my time since graduation working on global warming, I found myself last summer in a funk. The nation was finally beginning to accept the reality of climate change—Hurricane Katrina had blown open the door, and Al Gore ’69 had walked through it with his fine movie. But still there was nothing happening in Washington—the 20-year bipartisan effort to accomplish absolutely nothing about the greatest problem humans have ever faced continued unabated...