What's Past Is Prologue

Sage Stossel ’93, executive editor of The Atlantic Online, regularly contributes editorial illustrations to the Boston Globe. She prepared...

Sage Stossel ’93, executive editor of The Atlantic Online, regularly contributes editorial illustrations to the Boston Globe. She prepared this narrative [see PDF] of Harvard’s June festivities after attending the muddy fifteenth reunion last year with her husband, Michael Callaghan, and her brother, Scott Stossel, both class of ’91.

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