February 7, 2014 – Peace Corps Worldwide

Joshua Harris (Mali 1996-98) Follows The Footsteps of Charles Dickens And Writes Serialized Novel

Feb 07 2014

Joshua A.H. Harris spent, as he wrote me, “two life-altering years” (1996-98) in Mali as a PCV before attending the University of California, Davis School of Law. Earning his degree in 2003, he went to work as a lawyer for ten years at a public-interest, environmental firm in Oakland, California. Today, Josh is pursuing a Master’s Degree in English with an emphasis in creative writing at San Francisco State University. He is now writing a ‘serialized novel’ entitled Out of the Fog where every Friday he posts a new chapter, in the fashion Charles Dickens first achieved in the Victorian age. You can read Joshua novel at: http://outofthefogjh.blogspot.com Out of the Fog takes place in San Francisco in 2091 in a world radically altered by climate change. His first post (up now) is an open letter to Congress asking it to take action on climate change before the end of the year. The end . . .

The New York Times Wants To Know: How Did Your Recent Peace Corps Service Affect Your Life?

Feb 07 2014

THE NEW YORK TIMES FEB. 5, 2014 www.nytimes.com Serving in the Peace Corps can be both challenging and rewarding. Former Peace Corps volunteers often have good stories to tell – about their experiences in the field, what they learned and how those experiences shaped their lives after their service ended. Times journalists are writing about recent Peace Corps volunteers. If you have served in the Peace Corps in the past 10 years, please tell us about your experience by answering the questions below. Your comments and contact information will not be published, but a reporter or editor from The Times may follow up with you directly to learn more about your story. If you cannot see the form below, it is also available at this website. www.nytimes.com

JFK's Greatness–The Peace Corps

Feb 07 2014

In the current issue of The New York Review of Books (February 20, 2014) Frank Rich takes a look at and sums up the numerous books (140 +) and TV programs about JFK on the fiftieth-anniversary commemoration of his assassination. (By the way, Rich says, there have been approximately 40,000 books written on Kennedy.) In his long essays (this is the NYreview of Books, after all) Rich writes about another new book that tries to cast JFK as a ‘conservative’ is JFK, Conservative by Ira Stoll. Rich does battle with the book, but at once point he sums us Kennedy’s liberal bent and that brings the Peace Corps into focus. Here is the paragraph from Rich’s essay: “What most endures about Kennedy is his inspirational sanctification of public service–as conveyed by his rhetoric, by specific programs (the Peace Corps), and by the example of much of his family’s subsequent careers . . .

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