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While to the myopic student, Harvard and the communities that surround it may seem to share little in terms of goals, motivations, and funding, this year has seen town and gown brought together in many ways and to mutually beneficial outcomes...
...elementary school was destroyed, taking with it the lives of more than 400 students. The green mountains that surround the town look as if they have been clawed by angry giants; landslides have stripped the slopes bare, burying roads and dumping tons of rock and soil into the nearby Min River. At one entrance to the town a raised highway has been cut down like a ribbon. At the other end a car sits in an intersection, crushed by a boulder. A traffic police station tilts at a nauseating angle. Most of the town has been cleared of bodies...
...antagonizing many department veterans. "Those changes were a little premature," says Mark Donahue, president of the city's Fraternal Order of Police. "It's hard to believe he'd have gotten to know those folks on a personal basis in such a short period of time." New managers often surround themselves with loyalists, but Weis' swift move appears to have deepened his officers' disillusionment...
...since I lost my mother. On September 23, there may be flowers on my family’s dining room table. My father may tell me one of his patients remembered my mother, or that they sent along a card. It is a memory not of the emotions that surround death but of the time that has passed since...
...still uncertain whether she prefers choreographing or dancing, and dreads the day when she will have to choose one over the other. Schreier hopes to continue dancing and choreographing after graduation, but she has yet to make any set plans. “I hope to be able to surround myself with people who can facilitate my growth,” she says. “Having the opportunity to work with up-and-coming choreographers would be extremely useful, to immerse myself in the dance world somehow.” No matter where she finds herself, dancing?...