Final Stop
The best
places to ...
WATCH THE RED SOX
Charlie’s Sandwich
Shoppe. If you can’t make
it to Fenway, “it’s a place
where you can go and
drink beer and watch one
of many television sets
on which the Red Sox are
playing and eat grilled
cheese.” 429 Columbus
Ave.; 617-536-7669
GRAB TAKEOUT
Belle Isle Lobster and
Seafood. “It’s a wonderful little shack.” 1267
Saratoga St., Winthrop;
617-567-1619
Why I Love ...
Boston
From beaches to books, Harvard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning
professor Samantha Power is hooked on Beantown
In a commencement address she delivered in 2006, Harvard University’s
Samantha Power said she was surprised
she had been invited to speak.
“Inexplicably, you chose me, a woman
who was a decidedly average student in
law school,” Power said, “who never took
the bar exam and who, despite shelling
out 100,000 bucks, still can’t quite decide
what she wants to do with her life. I can’t
imagine why, after your three years in law
school, any of you would identify with
these particular qualities.”
Funny, coming from a 2003 Pulitzer
Prize winner (for her book A Problem
from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide), one of Time magazine’s Top Thinkers of 2004 and a foreign policy adviser
to Sen. Barack Obama. She’s also played
basketball with fellow Darfur activist
George Clooney, making her more than
just the self-proclaimed “Genocide
Chick,” and she makes her home in
Winthrop, just outside Boston, for “the
ocean,” she says, “lots of libraries and
bookstores, and the greatest baseball
stadium on the face of the earth.”
Power’s new book, Chasing the Flame:
Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save
the World (Penguin), tells the story of
the U. N. envoy who was killed in Iraq in
2003. “He had a 35-year head start thinking about how to mend broken people
and broken places,” she says. “I just feel
we need help, guidance, and he’s the only
person—the only historical or contemporary figure—who I think has as much
to teach.” —LEIGH flAYTON
BUY HER NEW BOOK
“Harvard Book Store, the
only really independent
bookstore left in Harvard
Square. It’s really sad.
There used to be a ton of
them.” 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge;
617-661-1515
PONDER DEEP,
PULITZER
PRIZE–WINNING
THOUGHTS
“The beach right
outside my window—
so, on my runs every
day on the beach.”
