The Citizen

By Tommy Tobin, MPP’15, Correspondent One doesn’t usually expect beef heart tartlets on a pub menu. Same goes for clam chowder fritters. At jm Curley in downtown Boston, expect these unusual culinary concoctions and more to complement the selection of adult refreshments. jm Curley is a place that doesn’t take itself too seriously, yet is […]

By Jose Felix Magana, MPA’14, Correspondent The Harvard-Radcliffe Rugby Football Club just conquered their first Ivy League rugby championship in history. The team clinched the title with a 29-0 stomping of then-undefeated Dartmouth. College junior Lenica Morales-Valenzuela added a try (that is, she scored a touchdown) in the final minutes of the championship game. These […]

By Ted Zagraniski, MPA/MC’14, Culture Editor The existence of the fourth lie was suggested by Douglas Shand-Tucci in 2001: “The idea of the three lies is at best a fourth, and by far the greater falsehood.” Who’s to blame for this fabrication? Campus tour guides might be a natural target for blame. Shand-Tucci called tour […]

By Shashank Shekhar Shukla, MPA’14, Correspondent As the city slept, the killer silently crept in. From the windows, doors, ledges and crevices, it came in silently to kill. It killed, it maimed, not in hundreds but in hundreds of thousands. The killer’s name was methyl isocyanate and in four hours it killed 8,000 innocent people […]

By Elizabeth A. Kislik, MPP’14, Correspondent All of this free pizza needs to stop. In the beginning of the semester, my email inbox was flooded with fliers advertising open houses and welcome events, many enticing attendees with the promise that “pizza will be served.” I had hoped the free pizza appeals would dissipate as the […]

By Michael McNealy, Correspondent The other day it occurred to me – walking to the Alewife Station on a fresh, crisp fall day – that I was guilty, again, of freeloading. Up ahead of me just a small distance, a man walked as well, followed by a trail of lingering smoke.  I was inhaling, cost […]

By Kevin Tan, MPP’15, Correspondent Within a week of school, we all knew ‘That Guy’ (or ‘That Girl’). You know him too. He is the person whose arm is a tightly-coiled viper, ready to devour any questions the professor lets fly. He is also the person whose answers are invariably an undigested mix of irrelevant […]

  By Chrissie Long, Staff Writer The HKS community is in mourning after the sudden death of a recent graduate. Mariana Filgueira Risso (MPA’13), who many classmates wagered would be president of her native Argentina someday, passed away Sunday, Dec. 8. Since news of her passing reached the HKS community, messages flooded in from around the […]

By Simon R. Bone In honor of Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom, the HBS and HKS student community held a candlelit walk on Sunday 1st December from HKS, across the JFK bridge to the Spangler Auditorium at Harvard Business School where an engaging discussion was held between professors and students who have worked and continue to work […]

Following news of Mariana’s passing, classmates sent messages to her and her family from around the world. A few of them agreed to share those messages with The Citizen.   “When I learned Mandela died, I was deeply saddened. The world lost a fearless fighter. Two hours later, I learned that my mother’s cousin lost […]

*What did you do before came to the Kennedy School? What didn’t I do. Yeesh. Officially I was a policy analyst with the Mississippi Economic Policy Center in Jackson, Mississippi. The organization’s mission was to provide analysis of state-level policy decisions with a lens toward how those decisions affect low-income families across the state. I […]

Nick Wilson, MPP ‘14 “I love you more than my own daddy, but if you get in my way, I’ll crush you.” As theatregoers shuffle into A.R.T.’s Loeb Drama Center in Harvard Square, the hallways are pulsating with discussion of the satisfying conclusion to Bryan Cranston’s brilliant transformation from humble chemistry teacher Walter White to […]