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SPRING 2017, VOLUME 109, NUMBER 3 Seeking Great Leaders The Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative offers a calendar year of rigorous education and reflection for highly accomplished leaders in business, government, law, medicine, and other sectors who are transitioning from their primary careers to their next years of service. Led by award-winning faculty members from across Harvard, the program aims to deploy a new leadership force tackling the world’s most challenging social and environmental problems. be inspired at +1-617-496-5479 170509_AdvancedLeadership_Chicago.indd 1 3/20/17 12:57 PM Features 24 LINGUA FRANCA What if you took a language class and actually learned to speak? Plus: What’s SPRING 2017 a LCTL? By Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93 VOLUME 109, NUMBER 3 30 FREE VERSE Mitsuye Yamada, AM’53, transformed her family’s internment experience into poetry. By Susie Allen, AB’09 38 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES How Ken Ono, AB’89, found life in and outside of math. Plus: A partition function breakthrough. By Helen Gregg, AB’09 46 BODIES OF WORK Photographer Lewis Hine, EX 1904, captured the changing face of American labor. By Susie Allen, AB’09 52 ALL AMERICAN Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998), PhB’23, AM’24, PhD’28, was a US historian for the people. By Lydialyle Gibson 58 IN HARMONY How Lucy Kaplansky, LAB’78, made a career of folk music. By Susie Allen, AB’09 Departments 3 EDITOR’S NOTES Transport yourself: Revisiting days gone by in the pages of the Magazine. By Laura Demanski, AM’94 4 LETTERS Readers share their experiences with the Small School Talent Search, encourage mountain climbing, debate free expression, and more. 11 UCHICAGO JOURNAL Ant researcher and enthusiast Benjamin Blanchard; a criminal justice quant takes on mass incarceration; Selwyn O. 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