December 10 , 2008: The Harvard Crimson -- Opinion: A Better Way to Give by Paula A. Tavrow '81, PhD, HAGA Founder and Chair
June 23 , 2008: The N.Y. Times -- What Do Graduates Owe the World? -- letter to the editor by Sarah Stookey '82
June 3 , 2008: The N.Y. Times -- Alumni Group Tries to Elicit Social Action From Harvard by Stephanie Strom
May 25, 2008: The N.Y. Times Op Ed-- Enjoy the Reunion. Skip the Check by Carroll Bogert '83
June 7, 2007: Harvard Magazine -- Kennedy School Commencement Address by Nicholas Kristof '82
May 20, 2007: The N.Y. Times -- Africa's Storied Colleges, Jammed and Crumbling by Lydia Polgreen & Elizabeth Dickenson
And related letter to editor: May 27, 2007: The N.Y. Times -- The Big Picture in African Colleges by Vartan Gregorian, President, Carnegie Corporation of NY
November 10, 2006: The Chronicle of Higher Education -- Alumni Gifts to Harvard -- Letter to the Editor
June 1, 2006: Inside Higher Ed -- Billions to Spare by David Epstein
April 18, 2006: The Harvard Crimson --Alumni Fund to Aid African Grad Students by Benjamin L. Weintraub, Crimson Staff Writer
April 12, 2006: HASA Press Release -- Harvard 25th Reunion Class Forms Organization to Support African Higher Education
J.K. Rowling's 2008 Harvard Commencement Address (excerpt):"If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better."
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Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's 2008 Kennedy School Commencement Address (excerpt):"I urge you to seize the opportunity to become true leaders. Motivate and inspire others to join you in your efforts. Exercise the character that sets you apart as role models for others to emulate. Think big. Let your dreams soar...Go for your ambition. Achieve your full potential. The time that you have spent at the Kennedy School says that you deserved it. Now go out and use it and change the world." Link to full article by Doug Gavel from Kennedy School website >>
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