Writing, clear and simple
Jamie Rees ’12 turned in the first pages of his senior thesis and heard the two words every writer dreads: Start over. “I had to write a draft during first semester,” said Rees, an economics...
View ArticleEyes on the future
To Leila Fawaz, Harvard isn’t just where she launched her academic career in Middle Eastern studies; it’s also where she learned to swim in the waters of Blodgett Pool under the eye of a Harvard Swim...
View ArticlePinker explains ‘The Long Peace’
Violence may seem to be all around us. Soldiers are fighting in Afghanistan. Drug-related shootings and senseless murders splash across the nightly news, and even the schools are no haven, with...
View ArticleLove beyond words
The writer Anne Fadiman made a confession Sunday evening to a roomful of shocked Cambridge Public Library patrons. It was a tale of familial abuse — of the bookshelf, that is. In her childhood home,...
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