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...took as an undergraduate, Cuse says. He took a seminar with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Agee professor of social ethics Robert Coles ’50, whom Cuse says became a mentor and a big influence.One of the authors who Coles assigned for his class was Walker Percy, whose writing influenced Cuse. As an homage to Percy, Cuse had “Lost” character Sawyer read Percy’s “Lancelot” while sitting on the beach in one episode.Cuse says that while he does know how the show will...
...momentum into next year as it returns both Scherf and Barrett for what looks to be a promising season. “We have a new coach and a new captain and we’re all really excited to see what happens,” sophomore Lauren Walker said. —Staff writer Courtney M. Petrouski can be reached at petrousk@fas.harvard.edu...
...professor of history of art and architecture at Harvard who first met Brown when they were both studying art in Paris.Following the completion of an M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, Brown joined the National Gallery of Art as assistant to the director John Walker in 1961, moving his way up the ranks. “It was pretty clear that Carter was brought in to be groomed to be director,” Zerner says. In 1969, 34-year-old Brown was appointed director of the Gallery, the first American museum director to ever...
...despite his age he enjoyed being “always on the go.” It is in part this drive that contributed to the “huge impact in every aspect” that Fusco ascribes to him, and makes the words of USOC President LeRoy Walker about the 1996 “Golden Olympians” seem especially relevant to his case, that “they are not only great athletes, but great people.”—Staff writer Alexandra C. Bell can be reached at acbell@fas.harvard.edu...
Several days before Katrina struck, John Walker shutdown production and evacuated crews from the oil and gas fields that his company operates in the Mississippi Delta. The CEO of EnerVest, a Houston energy-asset-management firm, was luckier than most. Katrina spared four of his fields, though the damage to a fifth was ugly. The storm blew a barge five miles down the bayou from its moorings in marshy Garden Island Bay. Nearly every piece of oil equipment was destroyed, and Walker estimates it will take several months to get that field running at full capacity. "When there...