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...Paul S. Stein, a Newton district administrator, said that although the city is considerably less diverse than Cambridge, Newton??s large size and various neighborhoods present “a unique set of demographics.” He added that the suburban community is actually far more socioeconomically diverse than is commonly thought. Approximately 30 percent of Newton students are minorities, versus 60 percent in Cambridge...
...more impressive by the fact that he successfully depicts him over a span of 40 years. Playing the current president is undoubtedly intimidating, but Brolin makes a complex character out of a seemingly less-than-complicated man. Unfortunately, the rest of the cast falls into caricature. In particular, Thandie Newton??s Condoleezza Rice seems like an amateur “Saturday Night Live” impersonation...
...Anti-Gravity is symbolic of Harvard students trying to keep our lives in order,” William M. R. C. Skinner ’09 says upon being asked why the Harvard-Radcliffe Juggling Club chose the name “Anti-Gravity: A Demonstration Against Newton?? as the title for the group’s May 3 Arts First performance in the Science Center. “I chose it to make people think that the crazy things we do break the laws of physics,” says Club treasurer Isaac S. Shivvers...
Besides climbing Newton??s notorious Heartbreak Hill, Anne R. Levenson ’09 faced another daunting hurdle as she ran yesterday’s Boston Marathon: a restriction from eating crucial carbohydrates the night before the race, as part of her observance of Passover. Along with her fellow runners in the Harvard College Marathon Challenge (HCMC), Levenson—a self-proclaimed “casual athlete”—not only managed to finish the 26.2-mile course, but also raised money in the process for the Phillips Brooks House Association and Project HEALTH...
...excited to come here every day,” he says. “There’s a demo every day—it’s never just pure lecture. One day [Charbonneau] got into a rocket chair and zoomed across the room to demonstrate one of Newton??s laws. Another time he froze a grapefruit in liquid nitrogen and broke it on the floor...