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...single guy, and you can’t seem to land a girlfriend. You are totally nonplussed at the lack of attention you receive from girls—after all, who can resist a guy who produces his own podcast touting Captain Kirk over Captain Picard and is fluent in four languages, including Elfish? Even with these credentials, however, you find that the most interaction you have with girls at Harvard occurs when you stand next to them in line at the dining hall...
...first time," she says. "I didn't want to try to get out and risk getting caught." For the next year, Kim lived a quiet life with her new husband, a Korean-Chinese translator. But the fear of arrest gnawed at her. Her Chinese was not fluent, and in 2005 the crackdown on refugees intensified. Because of her forced abortion, she could not have children, which caused irreparable strains in her marriage. In October 2005, her mother met Kim Sang Hun--a prominent underground-railroad activist in Seoul who took the case to Peters. The two of them started working...
Katherine S. Wong ’07 knows the difference between a Vandercook press and a pearl platen. As the undergraduate press master at the Bow and Arrow Press, a student-run printing facility tucked under Adams House B-Entryway, Wong is fluent in the near-dead language of manual printmaking. But it’s not arcane terminology that attracts her to the craft. “Printmaking is a meditative activity,” says Wong, an aspiring neurologist and self-described laid-back Californian. “It takes a long time to do something relatively simple...
...doing it,” Geng says.Susan Y. Yao ’09 says she understands the benefits of marrying someone who shares her cultural traditions and language—but thinks that is often an impractical goal. For instance, she would have to restrict her romantic options to fluent speakers of both Mandarin Chinese and Shanghainese, she says. For Hartl, dating a Chinese woman means being one of the few whites at her Chinese Student Association gatherings. Being in the minority can sometimes be “awkward,” he says.But in his Matthews Hall entryway, interracial...
...said Amy K. Lehr, a student at the Law School who worked for an NGO in Burma. “I found it encouraging that he thinks there’s a lot of opportunities for change in Burma in the current generation.” Speaking fluent English, Bo Kyi said he learned the language one sentence at a time from a fellow prisoner who was formerly a professor. “I ate a lot of dictionaries in my prison times,” he joked. “Bo Kyi’s trip is very significant...