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Despite the obstacles, those who have made the leap say there are few professions more rewarding than teaching. Cutler doubted he would ever find satisfying work in his first career, although he "traveled all over the world, made lots of money, had lots of status." As an eighth-grade history teacher today, he can say, "I never loved doing anything as much as I do now. When I talk about my students, it brings tears to my eyes." And satisfaction to his heart...
Other Crimson men with strong showings this weekend were Clever placing third in the javelin, junior John Kraay placing seventh in the shot put, and junior Arthur Fergusson leaping his way to eighth in the long jump...
...that there is something inherently preferable about melody over improvisation, or ballad tempo over fugue. But Mehldau, like Bach, is at his best slowed down. Like Glenn Gould playing 32nd trills as eighth notes, Mehldau proves that virtuosity is not dependent on quick pace alone. Yet even at a more leisurely speed, Mehldau's improvisational line exhibits an overall concern with counterpoint, which at once indicates his post-bop tendencies and classical training. But here they tend to be more appropriate, as Mehldau's impromptus have a tendency to fall into the trap of classical meter at brisker tempos...
...Harvard men finished eighth out of nine teams with 47 points, just two points back of seventh-place Brown and six points back of sixth-place Dartmouth. The result was an improvement over the team's performance at Indoor Heps, but the result was still well short of pre-season expectations...
...eighth-grader, I have a strong opinion about the efforts to stop school violence. The safety and lockdown measures being taken in public schools are absurd and infringe on a student's already limited privacy. As for the "warning signs," isn't it a clear indication of danger when someone states that he has plans to kill another student? The profiling system, Mosaic, could forever cast an eight-year-old as a troublemaker, even if his crime were only drawing an armed stick figure. Friends would stay away from him, crippling any social life he might have. What a system...