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Tag: 9/11
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Nation & World
Fighting for 9/11 families, first responders, vets
Comedian Jon Stewart, who has done advocacy work on behalf of U.S. military veterans and 9/11 first responders for two decades, spoke about what he’s learned during a talk at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Nation & World
Readers remember 9/11
We asked readers of Gazette coverage marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to share their own memories of the day. Below is a selection of responses, edited for clarity and length.
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Nation & World
Between Army and Medical School, a stop in hell
Former Army captain Gregory Galeazzi discusses his time in Afghanistan, his long recovery from injury, becoming a physician, and the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
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Nation & World
The day of
Former Harvard students recall the confusion and fear of 9/11, the desire to do something, and the sense that everything would be different now.
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Nation & World
Born to take on Islamophobia
Harvard Muslim Americans discuss the impact of Sept. 11 on their lives and what it means to be Muslim American 20 years after 9/11.
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Nation & World
‘I never saw a survivor’
On the morning of 9/11, David Battat, a Harvard grad and longtime volunteer firefighter, got a call from his College roommate telling him that a plane had crashed into a tower at the World Trade Center and urging him to stay away. Battat assured his friend he would remain where he was, hung up the…
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Nation & World
New York minute
When the planes hit the twin towers, Jill Radsken was a reporter covering New York Fashion Week in midtown Manhattan. Within minutes she was a news reporter capturing a world-changing terrorist attack.
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Nation & World
Choosing a concentration
A different kind of education awaited Joe Linhart ’03 in Iraq.
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Nation & World
Where were you when it happened?
Faculty and staff from across the University recall where they were on September 11, 2001, and how they think about the attacks 20 years later.
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Nation & World
Reporting live from the front lines of history
Ann Compton talked about the landmark events she has covered in her 40-year career as an ABC News reporter and White House correspondent. Compton was the guest speaker at Harvard Extension School’s Lowell Lecture.
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Nation & World
After 9/11, health lessons ignored
The public health lessons of 9/11 and subsequent anthrax attacks haven’t been learned, said Pulitzer Prize-winning author Laurie Garrett during a talk at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Science & Tech
From Iraq and back, via 9/11 and Harvard
A Harvard authority on ancient Iraq spent several years studying clay tablets looted from that nation, which had been stored in a World Trade Center building that was destroyed on 9/11. The tablets eventually were retrieved, restored, translated, and returned.
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Arts & Culture
Poetry in the Yard
Homi K. Bhabha, the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities and the Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, discusses his remembrance of September 11. Professor Bhabha’s project reflects on the decade since the tragedy through a series of poems installed within Harvard Yard.
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Nation & World
The law before and after 9/11
Michael Chertoff, former U.S. secretary of Homeland Security, outlines the security paradigm shift in the run-up to 9/11 and the factors to consider when creating a new legal architecture to fight terrorism.
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Campus & Community
Mourning 10, and 3,000
On the 10th anniversary of the attacks, Harvard students, faculty, and staff joined in remembering that tragic day. At the start of the day was an early-morning memorial run; at the end of the day were candlelight vigils that lit up the dark. In between came music, dance, and centering discussion.
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Nation & World
Harvard Remembers 9/11
The Harvard community remembers where they were on September 11th and reflects on how it has changed their lives and the world around them.
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Nation & World
‘Why do they hate us?’
The 9/11 terrorist attacks caused Americans to awaken to the disdain for the nation held by some overseas. It also brought harsh attention to U.S. Muslims and mobilized the nation toward actions it may one day rue, experts said at a panel discussion.
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Nation & World
Teaching a tragedy
Speakers from the fields of education, history, government, religion, and politics convened at the Harvard Graduate School of Education to examine how, why, and what should be taught to young people about the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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Nation & World
It’s time for diplomacy
Kennedy School panelists say U.S. policymakers should use the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks as an opportunity to shift from a military-driven “global war on terror” to a policy built more on diplomacy, outreach, and persuasion.
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Nation & World
In praise of ordinary people
Officials should not forget the important role that ordinary citizens play in the critical hours after a disaster, authorities on disaster response told the Forum at Harvard School of Public Health, during a discussion of how that has changed since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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Campus & Community
Finding meaning in loss
Jennifer Page Hughes, a psychologist at the Bureau of Study Counsel, coped with a senseless death by helping others — from Harvard students to the families of 9/11 victims — deal with grief.
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Campus & Community
Remembering 9/11
Harvard plans services, vigils, panels to draw meaning from 10th anniversary of 9/11 tragedy.
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Arts & Culture
American tune
Ethnomusicology graduate student Sheryl Kaskowitz talks about her dissertation on cultural shifts in the meaning of Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America.”
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Nation & World
Telling it like it was
Three former spokespersons discussed their time on the press firing line when they worked in the White House.
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Nation & World
When fear took control
More than a dozen high school teachers from around the area attended a workshop this week focused on the Cuban Missile Crisis, bringing new points of view to bear on high school students’ understanding of the event.
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Campus & Community
Fighting modern slave trade
Katherine Chon found her passion in opposing human trafficking worldwide, and her Kennedy School degree will provide new strategies for doing so.
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Nation & World
‘Jazz’ diplomacy
Richard Holbrooke, a diplomat for nearly 50 years, imparts to a Harvard audience his insights into current international conflicts, particularly in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kashmir.
