Alumni | June 15, 2012

Class notes and obituaries July-August 2012

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Published in the July-August 2012 print issue under the headline “The Classes,” in the Alumni section.

He was Harvard’s quintessential people person.

The former economics concentrator brings his talent for crunching numbers to netminding.

Graduates John Lithgow, Bill Rauch, and Bess Wohl took home prizes on Sunday night.

The underlying arguments project clashing worldviews of race and appropriate remedies.

An animal’s journey from grief to love shows how much humans need each other, too.

Genes seem to play a role in determining sexual orientation, but it’s small, uncertain, and complicated.

Singer Elisa Smith’s whiskey-soaked voice and subversive feminism is part of the genre’s urban shift.

Conan O’Brien headlines a star-studded cast

Author and Harvard Divinity School writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams finds beauty in the world around us.