BY ELIZABETH A. KISLIK In a lecture at Harvard University in mid-October, New York Times columnist Gail Collins discussed how fundamentally women’s roles in American society have changed over the past half-century. Her talk reflected the theme of her 2009 book, When Everything Changed. Collins recalled the days of “executive flights,” on which young, unmarried […]

BY SHASHANK SHEKHAR SHUKLA As the city slept, the killer silently crept in. From the windows, doors, ledges and crevices, it came in silently, slaughtering not just hundreds but hundreds of thousands of innocent victims. The killer’s name was methyl isocyanate, and in 4 hours it instantly killed 8,000 people and maimed another 200,000. At […]

*what did you do before you came to the Kennedy School? Right before school, I helped my friends launch an airline in California called Surf Air. If you ever get a chance to work on a startup with your friends, do it. Before that, I worked on Governor Mitt Romney’s finance team for his two […]

By Tommy Tobin, MPP’15, Correspondent There is a certain joy in wandering down a side street only to find a true hidden gem of a restaurant. It’s hard to describe the rush of surprise when a concealed hole-in-the-wall exceeds your expectations. The Marliave, with its charming unassuming exterior down a glorified alleyway near Park Station, […]

By Tommy Tobin, MPP’15, Correspondent One doesn’t usually expect beef heart tartlets on a pub menu. Same goes for clam chowder fritters. At jm Curley in downtown Boston, expect these unusual culinary concoctions and more to complement the selection of adult refreshments. jm Curley is a place that doesn’t take itself too seriously, yet is […]

By Jose Felix Magana, MPA’14, Correspondent The Harvard-Radcliffe Rugby Football Club just conquered their first Ivy League rugby championship in history. The team clinched the title with a 29-0 stomping of then-undefeated Dartmouth. College junior Lenica Morales-Valenzuela added a try (that is, she scored a touchdown) in the final minutes of the championship game. These […]

By Ted Zagraniski, MPA/MC’14, Culture Editor The existence of the fourth lie was suggested by Douglas Shand-Tucci in 2001: “The idea of the three lies is at best a fourth, and by far the greater falsehood.” Who’s to blame for this fabrication? Campus tour guides might be a natural target for blame. Shand-Tucci called tour […]

By Shashank Shekhar Shukla, MPA’14, Correspondent As the city slept, the killer silently crept in. From the windows, doors, ledges and crevices, it came in silently to kill. It killed, it maimed, not in hundreds but in hundreds of thousands. The killer’s name was methyl isocyanate and in four hours it killed 8,000 innocent people […]

By Elizabeth A. Kislik, MPP’14, Correspondent All of this free pizza needs to stop. In the beginning of the semester, my email inbox was flooded with fliers advertising open houses and welcome events, many enticing attendees with the promise that “pizza will be served.” I had hoped the free pizza appeals would dissipate as the […]

By Michael McNealy, Correspondent The other day it occurred to me – walking to the Alewife Station on a fresh, crisp fall day – that I was guilty, again, of freeloading. Up ahead of me just a small distance, a man walked as well, followed by a trail of lingering smoke.  I was inhaling, cost […]

By Kevin Tan, MPP’15, Correspondent Within a week of school, we all knew ‘That Guy’ (or ‘That Girl’). You know him too. He is the person whose arm is a tightly-coiled viper, ready to devour any questions the professor lets fly. He is also the person whose answers are invariably an undigested mix of irrelevant […]

  By Chrissie Long, Staff Writer The HKS community is in mourning after the sudden death of a recent graduate. Mariana Filgueira Risso (MPA’13), who many classmates wagered would be president of her native Argentina someday, passed away Sunday, Dec. 8. Since news of her passing reached the HKS community, messages flooded in from around the […]