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8 Questions for Chester French

by Sean McManus

D.A. Wallach and Maxwell Drummey started playing music together as freshman in the basement of a Harvard dorm. Now, the duo has graduated, and everyone from Kanye West to Italian Vogue is all ears.

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Blogs


Ms. Rowling Comes to Harvard?

She's speaking at the University's Commencement. But not everyone's happy about it.


Yale—and Larry Summers—in the Wall Street Journal

The ex-Harvard president speaks on how universities need to change; the Yale president says little but does a lot.


Taxing Harvard?

Massachusetts lawmakers are seriously considering imposing a tax on Harvard's endowment.


What Drew Faust Should Have Said

The Harvard president created a controversy when she said that smaller schools should cut back on science. But in reality, her comments didn't go far enough.


The $100-Million Man

David Rockefeller is giving Harvard $100 million. Here's what his gift means—and what it doesn't.

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* Michelle Obama and Barack Obama
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Al Franken. Seriously.

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With a new pen commemorating a founding father, Montblanc revives the lost art of writing.

Fareed Spotlight
The Internationalist

Newsweek International Editor Fareed Zakaria talks about the future of the Muslim world, whether American kids are decadent, and what the United States can learn from the Swiss.

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The Crusader

Samantha Power on the writing process, the point of the United Nations, and the hotness of Barack Obama.

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Passions: Golden State Glamour

The Harvard-meets-Hollywood lifestyle: where to live, where to go to get away, how to get there in style, and the clothes and jewelry that will guarantee you look the part.

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Lone Star

Tommy Lee Jones is a man of few words—but when he talks about movies, morality, and the "madness" of immigration politics, a few words can say a lot.

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Movie Review: Marina of the Zabbaleen

Engi Wassef debuts her first feature documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival.

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Cry-Baby, Cry.

Daily Show writer and producer David Javerbaum's first foray into writing for musical theater, an adaptation of the film Cry-Baby, has arrived on Broadway. Do his prodigious small-screen talents play on the stage?

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