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Travis Crum, professor of law

Kathleen Clark, professor of law

Kathleen Clark, professor of law

Adia Harvey Wingfield, the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Arts & Sciences

Matthew Kreuter, the Kahn Family Professor of Public Health

Kathleen Clark, professor of law

Institute for Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis

We should continue being patient in this moment, to do all we can to channel the energies of this political era into the creation of a better world, even when this means working with those with whom we disagree. But, in doing so, we should not tolerate — we should not extend patience towards — the cruelty inherent in some of what has been done, writes Sandro Galea.

Jianqing Chen, assistant professor of East Asian languages and cultures and of film and media studies

One of the most well-known of these tragedies was the airplane crash that killed rock and rollers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson (the Big Bopper) outside of Clear Lake, Iowa, on February 3, 1959.   As Don McLean referred to in his song American Pie, it was the “day the music died.”  But on that day, luck and chance were also front and center, writes Mark Rank.