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...escape a ravaging ethnic civil war and ended up in New York. He found his footing there by learning English and enrolling at Columbia, eventually returning to Burundi to form a public health organization, Village Health Works. Kidder took a break from his book tour to talk about his new book and his career as a writer.The Harvard Crimson: How did you meet Deogratias, and what compelled you to write about him?Tracy Kidder: I actually met him at Harvard, at Eliot House, about 3 years ago. I’d come to see Paul Farmer [the subject...
...What Sesame Street offers to stressed parents is a discussion on how to get help. There are extended conversations about getting loans, short-selling property, finding daycare, and advertising skills. There’s also frank talk about why the current crisis is occurring and a promotion of the idea that many families from many different backgrounds are struggling. Parents shouldn’t beat themselves up too much—in fact, there are many things folks can cooperate on to help each other...
Disturbing fact of the day: 41% of college students know of someone (which includes themselves) who has slept with a professor or teacher's assistant. Talk about a teacher...
...wise priest (he's also a Mason!) tells him. "One foot in the spiritual, one foot in the physical. Your heart yearns to believe ... but your intellect refuses to permit it." Langdon should get together with Agent Mulder from The X-Files - they'd have a lot to talk about...
...around 30, mostly composed of older Cambridge locals and a few students. “It’s part of our spirituality and part of our connection to the divine.” Ruttenberg summarized some of the issues in her book at yesterday’s talk, working her way easily from the presence of homoeroticism in sexually segregated communities to the role of female masturbation in Jewish sacred texts. “Sex toys are mentioned in the Talmud, but female masturbation is not,” she said. After reading a steamy passage from the thirteenth...