Rebecca O’Brien
Rebecca graduated in 2006 and moved to Jordan, where she was a founding faculty member at King's Academy, the first co-ed boarding school in the Middle East. After returning to the East Coast, she wrote for Newsweek/The Daily Beast, The Wall Street Journal, Parade, Forbes.com, and Slate's XX Factor blog before becoming a staff reporter at The [Bergen County] Record, where she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for local reporting in 2014. She is now at The Wall Street Journal, and one of the staff members sharing the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.
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A Living Political Monument
In the years immediately following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy ’40, LL.D. ’56, a group of the president’s...
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Countering Alcohol
In the fall of 2003, dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross—once an undergraduate here himself—paused in his work as a...
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Eyes Opened But Averted
I make decisions on a whim, decisions prompted by sudden changes in interest—and subject to immediate retraction once I've recovered sense...
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Going Home Again
The final project for my fall semester writing course freshman year was an autobiographical narrative in the style of Faulkner's The Sound and...
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Extracurricular Communities
I think it came to me on a bleak November day, in the middle of an equally bleak economics lecture, as I perched high in the lofty wood...