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Emma K. Talkoff

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Breakthrough Starshot

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I warn him that I study history, but he is encouraging. “Well, history begins with the big bang.”


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Painting for the Resistance: Harvard Student Power Network

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“Let’s move past the mourning phase and be ready to fight and act.”


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Molly K. Finlayson

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Even before political unrest came to a head, life during her Mormon mission had been far from easy.


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A Record of Some Kind

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The small device gasping for breath on the table in front of me contained the images of my summer—carefully catalogued evidence of the time I had spent trekking around the Malay Peninsula of Southeast Asia.


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Breaking the Surface with Schuyler Bailar

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Bailar is the first openly transgender athlete in any Division I NCAA sport. He’s struggled with body image, eating disorders, and dysphoria, but today, showing off in the pool, all of that seems distant. It’s not: If Bailar is confident and comfortable in front of a camera today, it’s because he’s worked hard to get to that point, and because of the impact he believes his attitude will have on others.


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Living the Culture

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His home in Assayii, New Mexico, a place named for the red rock of the canyons there, is starkly different from the halls of Harvard. “We live where the pavement ends,” Clark says with a laugh. “Literally, there’s a road that’s called ‘The Road to Nowhere’, and I live further on.”


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24 Hours with the Clock

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Can a film about its own duration possibly maintain such manic levels of devotion? Only time will tell.


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Lorgia H. García Peña

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García Peña is a professor of Latino studies, one of the first ever to be hired at Harvard—a role that she describes as both a responsibility and an opportunity for innovation.


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All Over the Map

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“Harvard cannot hope to have strong departments in everything,” the University is reported; to have said. In any case, Geography was gone for good. Or so it seemed.


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Retrospection: Rustication

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Draper was already a likely candidate for banishment to the countryside

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Wasabi Roulette

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The Wasabi Roulette that made my companion cry.


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Japan's Atlas

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Japan's Atlas

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