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Caro began his career as a reporter the Long Island newspaper Newsday, and admits that “it was at Harvard that I decided to write [my first book].” While a Nieman Fellow in 1965, his wife Ina, also a writer, was unable to stay with him in Boston, so he spent most evenings “in a tiny office in Leverett, sitting and thinking...
...thesis, which is a “very strong possibility,” it would be about how economics affects human rights in Vietnam. “I love that topic. I feel passionate about anything Vietnam related, so it would be easy for me to write a thesis about Vietnam or learn about Vietnam because I would be so motivated...
This article became a lot harder to write after I selected Kobe Bryant in my fantasy basketball draft. But alas, I shall continue my attempts to show Brenda Lee the path to salvation?...
...rating of teaching—often the primary gauge for teaching ability—fall short of providing a realistic picture of teaching skill in the classroom. Were Harvard to adopt a system like Swarthmore’s—whose tenure process asks students to write letters speaking to the teaching ability of candidates—teachers who truly inspire their students to intellectual pursuit would be as accredited as those who merely excel in the lab. Without this crucial component, Harvard’s tenure system, however marginally improved with the alteration of the blind letter system, will...
...dotcom bust. Staggering budget deficits. A hellzapoppin' gubernatorial recall. What other misfortune could happen to California? Well, Joan Didion, who was born and raised there, could write an elegantly acerbic book arguing that the sustaining myths by which the state defines itself are false, self-deluding and corrupt. Where I Was From (Knopf; 226 pages) is that book, and Governor-elect Schwarzenegger, for one, can give thanks that it was written too soon to include...