Delphine Rodrik
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Home Sickness
I’d always wanted an older sibling, preferably a brother: someone who’d probably beat me up but also teach me how to win my own fights, who’d fill me in on older kid secrets so I’d always be ahead of the game.
Club Harvard
Successful Harvard grads follow well-tread paths that lead from campus to New York, Hollywood, and across the globe. If they go where the existing university network shapes their trajectory, it is too easy to remain within the Harvard bubble—obscuring the possibilities that exist outside of it.
Ben S. Raderstorf
Growing up in Boulder, Colorado, Ben S. Raderstorf ’14 was naturally a big mountaineer, he says, and trips with what he calls an eccentric family were as commonplace as the outdoors. But Raderstorf didn’t anticipate that his love of travel and the outdoors would play as large of a role on campus in Cambridge too.
Scholars at Risk
“Will I be safer?” Birtukan Midekssa echoes. She lets out a laugh, pauses, then shakes her head, but her wide smile doesn’t flicker. “I don’t know,” she says. “Honestly.”
Mapping the District
The ropes shoot up, then down, the noise projected outward so much greater than the person holding the cord—thousands of pounds of metal between two palms.
Heartbreak Hill
“There were just two explosions at the finish line,” she rushed on, but at first I couldn’t understand. Where was the finish line, and how could it explode?
Spring Break Postcard: On Train Tracks
There are no welcome signs when the train crosses the border, or at least none that I can see.
Fifteen Minutes with Richard Blanco
Richard Blanco was the first Latino and first openly gay poet—and the youngest—chosen to write the inaugural poem, and tasked with an impossibly daunting project of depicting today’s America. The night before he was slated to speak at Harvard , he spent a few minutes speaking with FM.
Berry, Pinker, and Blyth Wish Dr. Seuss a Happy Birthday
From FM, here's a happy belated!
The Fall of Academics at Harvard
Government 1310 scandal has been treated by some administrators as the unfortunate exception, an isolated incident whose case has now been closed. But as academic integrity dances uncertainly through a campus whose gates and walls are engraved with a motto of truth, Veritas is at stake.
Latest Media
A Laughing Matter
Kellee Kim ‘12 was the Currier House representative for Class Day.
Men in the Middle: Harvard's Obukwelu Brothers
Gladys and Ebbie Obukwelu immigrated from Nigeria with next to nothing, but through years of hard work by their entire family, their sons, Nnamdi and Obum, have achieved the American Dream. Now Harvard defensive tackles, the Obukwelus have become the stuff of opponents' nightmares. In anticipation of their final football game together, The Crimson documents the inspiring story of Nnamdi and Obum Obukwelu, Harvard's "Men in the Middle."
Old Quincy's New Look
Old Quincy has been renamed Stone Hall in memory of Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, a former Harvard Management Company director.
rainbow flag
American flags and rainbow flags dot the crowd that included many supporters of same-sex marriage outside the Supreme Court building in advance of the court's gay marriage rulings in June 2013.
Reporters and photographers donning umbrellas join flag-waving supporters of same-sex marriage outside the U.S. Supreme Court building Wednesday morning prior to the announcement of the much-anticipated rulings on two major gay marriage cases.
Holding colorful signs and waving rainbow flags, supporters of same-sex marriage gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court before the announcement of rulings on cases concerning California's Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act.