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...quite India, but you get the picture. Meanwhile, Justin A. Erlich ’03, the man behind the legend that was Quincy Grille, has dreams of litigating for major social causes like affirmative action, or of running an entrepreneurial start-up. After graduation, Erlich spent some time in Washington, DC, worked for the Kerry campaign, and ended up at NYU Law School. He still has a soft spot for his Harvard years—and Harvard food. “Some of the people there were remarkably interesting, smart, funny, and fun,” he recalls...
...says Cep, acknowledging the difficulty of the task she has set for herself. But Cep has found a way to mix work with pleasure: Cep’s novel is set in her childhood home—the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay—and last summer she spent two months fishing, crabbing and talking to the locals as thesis research...
Author Evan W. Thomas III ’73 is an assistant managing editor of Newsweek, where he has written extensively about the ongoing Iraq war. Meanwhile, he has spent the past few years working as a naval historian after-hours. (His 2003 biography of the seafaring American revolutionary John Paul Jones was a New York Times bestseller.) In his newly-released “Sea of Thunder,” Thomas’ moonlighting and his day-job converge. The subjects Thomas tackles—from military infighting to the suicide bomber’s mentality—could...
Frank McCourt, former high school English teacher and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, told stories of the 30 years he spent teaching New York teenagers—whom he described as “either hungry or horny”—last night at the Gutman Conference Center of the Graduate School of Education (GSE). Introduced by GSE Dean Kathleen McCartney as a writer able “to inhabit the mind of a seven-year-old child with great authenticity,” McCourt approached the podium with no notes and only a copy of his latest memoir...
...doesn’t just speak out for justice; she screams. “Shirley really tries to empower the voiceless at Harvard. She sings those voices really loud,” says Hufstedler’s blockmate, Currun Singh ’07. And she’s spent four years building a community that can scream with her. When drummer Hufstedler first came to Harvard, she couldn’t find her niche. “I would call the music department and the Office of the Arts,” the Adams House resident remembers...