Word: localitis
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...exploded "Contact Sheet Self-Portraits," by the local photographer Karl Baden, depict storms of skin, dissociated from their normal facial placement and set against blank sky backgrounds. Each picture in the set of 35 on each contact sheet shows a minute part of Baden's face. Baden rearranges these segments-mouth, nose and eyes repeat in a row, are wrongly placed, or are not there at all. In one portrait, the flesh pulls and pushes apart like an epidermal big bang. Another print plays on the truism that "no man is an island," shoving all the flesh into the center...
Nonetheless, as a local resident, "I want to see students volunteering in the community, helping out with schools, with kids and sports," Davis says. "I'm always appreciative when I hear about that happening...
...outside of business transactions, most Cantabrigians have little opportunity to interact with actual Harvard students. CityStep and Phillips Brooks House Association programs like Harvard CHANCE, a tutoring program at local schools, offer some of the only opportunities for Harvard students to meet actual residents. But even community service only goes...
...summer, Cambridge residents are happy because all the Harvard students go home and everything is less crowded," said Edward B. Colby '02, a local resident and Rindge and Latin graduate who is also a Crimson editor. "Most of the people in my school didn't think about Harvard at all. They'd walk through Harvard Yard on their way home from school, but Harvard students didn't really have any impact on their lives...
...Coming from the U.S. gives a deportee the edge over the local gang-bangers. "These kids might have been low-level gang members back in the States, but when they come here, they're like the Nike of the gang world," says Magdalena Rose Avila, founder of Homeys Unidos, which helps deported gang members settle into Salvadoran society. "One guy I know recruited 60 or 70 soldiers to his gang in six months...