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...friends he made in his early acting days. At Harvard, Polk says, the theater scene has allowed him to form “relationships and friendships with some of the most amazing people he’s ever met.” His love of performing has affected every layer of his college experience, and although he is intrigued by the idea of a career in politics down the line, he is hoping to pursue acting or score a job as a comedy writer after he graduates.Despite the race to finish his History and Literature thesis about 1850s fugitive slave...
...before the inauguration would take place. I figured that between bus, train, and plane, I would be able to find some way of getting to the nation’s capital. But on Sunday, a huge snow storm hit my hometown of New York, blanketing the city in a layer of white. Luckily, when I checked, they had added some last minute trains between New York and Washington. And with all that snow, I figured the train would be the safest bet. I’d arrive by Monday evening. When I stepped off of my train, Union Station...
...mysterious aroma of bacon filled the Holworthy common room. Curious students traced the source of the smell to the oven, where a “Bacon Explosion”—a recently popularized recipe that wraps Italian sausage and crumbled bacon in a layer of bacon and slathers it with barbecue sauce—was cooking...
...Israelis want to keep us poor and ignorant," says Amar Hamad, chairman of the Palestinian Industries Federation. "Businessmen were the last layer of society who believed that prosperity would bring peace with Israel. Now they don't believe that...
...study's lead author, and his colleagues at Stockholm University conducted research with Indian scientists from January to April 2006 to determine that two-thirds of the cloud's soot particles come from biomass combustion like household cooking and slash-and-burn agriculture. The researchers confirmed that the layer of haze - which many have blamed for the world's increasingly extreme weather patterns - makes rain both more rare during the dry season and more intense during monsoons. And in South Asia, the cloud's net effect on climate change, says the study, rivals that of carbon dioxide...