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...lifetime experience. For Kevin J. Feeney ’08, personal instruction from Dave Eggers was a regular occurrence that sparked a passion for literature and eventually led him to found a volunteer-supported writing center for high school students. As a sophomore in high school, Feeney heard about 826, a non-profit organization started by Dave Eggers with the aim of providing free after-school writing programs and seminars to high school students. Feeney’s emerging interest in creative writing led him to volunteer before the opening of 826 Valencia, the program’s first writing...
...goal, according to event coordinator Brittney R. Lind ’11, is for people to leave “Outwit” having seen some of the real though sometimes underground talent at Harvard and “give all different types of expression the opportunity to be heard or read or seen.” Tuesday Magazine, which generally publishes creative pieces, sees a strong correlation between freestyle rap and the poetry that they feature prominently in their publication. Freestyle rap is more accessible, Lind says. “It’s a form of expression that...
...watch TV.” That’s got to be the most common response I hear whenever I get giddy about my favorite subject, and while it isn’t exclusive to Harvard, I encounter it here most often. I’ve never heard any of my classmates say that they don’t see movies, don’t read novels, or don’t like art, but when it comes to the idiot box, the claws come out. And in some ways, I can understand why. Television is home to some...
Awareness of the law, enacted April 15, among L.A.'s 14,000 licensed taco truckers is still low. On April 23, at an East L.A. parking lot where dozens line up every afternoon to clean and restock their trucks, not a single driver had heard of the changes. "It seems like they're doing it very quietly," says Monica Jimenez, whose family has been in the taco truck business for 25 years. "They didn't announce it." Jimenez's family is one of dozens who have spoken to an attorney about challenging the new law on the grounds that...
...young Polish priest named Karol Wojtyla made the pilgrimage to a small town in Puglia to have his confession heard by Padre Pio, the mysterious Italian monk with the Christ-like stigmata wounds on his hands. It was that encounter - along with Wojtyla's belief that a prayer by the Capuchin monk had cured a friend's cancer in 1962 - that helps explain why Padre Pio was fast-tracked for sainthood once Wojtyla had risen to the papacy as John Paul II. But some may now wonder if the current Pope, the cerebral and professorial Benedict XVI, has the same...