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Popcorn Diplomacy
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Magazine Archives
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March/April 2008
Jehane Noujaim believes that “Once you get to know someone, you can’t kill them.” Her new global film project, Pangea Day, puts her thesis to the test.
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Crimson Tide
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March/April 2008
From Conan O'Brien to Natalie Portman to Homer Simpson, Harvardians have painted Tinseltown red. On the pages that follow, meet the actors, writers, directors, and dealmakers who have brought 02138 to 90210.
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Liz Mermin, A.B. 1993
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12/21/2007
In her January 2008, UK-release documentary Shot In Bombay, Mermin captures the behind-the-scenes drama of the making and release of a Bollywood film, Shootout at Lokhandwala, featuring Bollywood screen legend Sanjay Dutt in his last film before serving a six-year prison sentence for illegal arms possession related to the perpetrators of the 1993 Bombay bomb blasts. The chaos surrounding Dutt’s court case and dramatic displays of adoration and condemnation the proceedings provoked from the stars' fans drove the volatile plot for Mermin’s documentary.
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A Sunday Visit with Peter Gomes
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Editorial Blogs
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Shots in the Dark
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12/09/2007
A Boston Globe column about Peter Gomes shows only what a minor-league newspaper the Globe has become.
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Poking Facebook
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Magazine Archives
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November/December 2007
Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg created one of the most trafficked sites on the Web and became a paper billionaire as a result. But ongoing lawsuits suggest that Facebook's origins are murkier than Zuckerberg would like to admit. Is the man many are calling Harvard’s next Bill Gates telling the truth?
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Kenneth Koch, AB '48
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Names in the News
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10/18/2007
Speaking Volumes: Pride and Poetry ... And the Humor Within
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Love Before the Ruins
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Magazine Archives
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May/June 2007
Katie Roiphe, author of Still She Haunts Me and the controversial The Morning After, explores unconventional marriages among the literati in pre-World War II London.
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Harvard's First Husband
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Magazine Archives
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May/June 2007
Charles Rosenberg is boldly going where no man has gone before.
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How to Run Harvard
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Magazine Archives
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May/June 2007
What Drew Faust can learn from Derek Bok.
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Why Not, Al?
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Magazine Archives
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Spring 2007
Al Gore was at Harvard during tumultuous times, which shaped the steady, considered politician he became. That’s why his former teacher thinks he should run.
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No Gays On the Advocate
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Magazine Archives
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Spring 2007
Poet John Ashbery recalls the heady, artistically competitive, politically charged post-war years when he, Edward Gorey, and Frank O’Hara all converged on the Yard.
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American Sprawl
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Magazine Archives
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Spring 2007
Former Spy editor Kurt Andersen weaves the historical and the hysterical into an ambitious novel of ideas.
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From Blog to Bookshelf
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Magazine Archives
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Spring 2007
All about “Sex and the Ivy,” an X-rated blog by Lena X. Chen.
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Ruben Bolling, J.D. ’87
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12/01/2006
In his own words: “With a good political strip, or a topical one, the ideal response would be, 'Wow, how did he think of that? How did he think of that take on that subject?' My goal for a general humor one is, the reader would say, 'Wow, why did he think of that?'
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Power, it turns out, is in the eye of the beholder.
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Magazine Archives
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Winter 2007
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When Dodo Met Dodo
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Magazine Archives
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Winter 2007
Marine biologist-turned-filmmaker Randy Olson lampoons former colleagues in his new documentary about evolution. The humor carries a disquieting message: scientists are ceding the intellectual high ground.
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Books Radar
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Magazine Archives
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Premier Issue
A few things we're looking forward to after the jeremiads of election season vacate the shelves.
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Noam Weinstein, A.B. '99
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Spotlight
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08/07/2006
Who: Singer/Songwriter
Secret Aspirations: “When I was little I was obsessed with train conductors. In junior high school I wanted to make computer games. In high school and college I dreamed of being financially stable and well-adjusted. But this is all highly speculative.“
Politics: “I'm a registered Democrat in Massachusetts. (Cuz the ladies like it.)”
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Thomas Keating Murdock, 83
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06/07/2006
Executive with Lennon and Newall, a New York advertising firm; worked in the retail field; served in the Navy during WWII as a Lieutenant, J.G.
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Peter J. Buckley Sr., 53; Sales Representative
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05/10/2006
“Damn, Pete had quickest wit I ever saw!” The online condolence book for Peter J. Buckley Sr. is full of such testimonies to his kindness and sharp sense of humor.
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Joseph Corcoran Dare, 69; Attorney and Sailor
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04/18/2006
Joseph Corcoran Dare, a Miami real estate attorney and avid sailor, died April 15, the Miami Herald reported. Dare served in the U.S. Navy from 1959 to 1962 as an ensign and lieutenant junior grade after graduating from Dartmouth College. With an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a
