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Thoroughly Eclectic

Performer Eisa Davis, now starring on Broadway in Passing Strange, stays open to her many artistic passions, including playwriting (Bulrusher, Angela’s Mixtape) and singing (her devut album is Something Else)…
7.1.08

Sleuths in Love

Screenwriter turned novelist Eric Lerner ’71 finds his voice…
5.1.08

Underground Party

Commuters making their way through the underground corridors of the sprawling Times Square subway station in Manhattan now have some…
5.1.08

Solar Sculptor

Michael Kapetan’s sundials don’t do “clock time”…
5.1.08

Fishing for Answers

Photograph by Ralf-Finn Hestoft Neil Shubin and Tiktaalik In 2005, parents and school officials in Dover, Pennsylvania, were locked in a…
5.1.08

Identity Seeker

Sergio Troncoso ’83 showed up in Cambridge in 1979 with a suitcase full of T-shirts brought from his hometown on the Texas-Mexico border…
5.1.08

Rebuilding Churches

In college, Tim McCarthy ’93 was deeply involved in public service—as a Big Brother and head of the Freshman Urban Program steering…
5.1.08

Harvard's Hillary Look-alike

Professional actress Heidi Dallin ’85 has been getting lots of work lately, thanks to her marked resemblance to Hillary Clinton…
3.25.08

Wartime Legalities

At 6 a.m. in western Baghdad, the thermometer has already punched through 100 degrees across the barren lands around Camp Victory. As Colonel…
3.1.08

Sweet Science

At the Leverett House Grill in the late 1980s, Joanne Chang ’91 first turned pro as a baker, selling four freshly baked chocolate chip…
3.1.08

Not Groucho (but Way Funny)

For a long time, Patricia Marx ’75 assumed she “would wake up in the suburbs with three kids and a mother hairdo.” It…
3.1.08

Moving Pictures, Hard Questions

It was a rare rainy night in Los Angeles. Filling up his tank at a local gas station, a man noticed the silhouette of another man, just beyond…
3.1.08

Storytelling Spaces

Set designer Derek McLane (Harvard ’80) has designed stages for “Grease,” “Guys and Dolls,” “The Pajama Game,” and Pulitzer Prize-winning “I Am My Own Wife,” and many other plays.
3.1.08