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...That’s maybe the main reason I’m here,” says Brown, the Crimson’s active leader in pitching appearances, who sits in a cafeteria on a recent morning. “Because I can do that...
...treats building more diverse memberships as primarily a problem of publicity, the solution to which entails trying to interest under-represented minorities in the group’s current activities, in order to integrate them into the group’s existing framework. This assumes that the main reason such students wouldn’t get involved with a group is that he or she hadn’t heard of it. To achieve more than superficial gains, however, student groups should consider what motivates a student to get involved with a group in the first place...
...Elmo is gone again,” Patricia G. Pepper, assistant to the master, announced in an e-mail to a House list Friday. “Elmo” refers to a painting of the red-furred Sesame Street character that normally hangs on the lower main level of the House. Even its name has furred eyebrows. “I don’t like that people refer to it as the ‘Elmo painting,’ because Lambchop is just as prominent in the picture,” said Kiernan P. Schmitt...
...natural capital.” Suzuki also reflected upon the change in Homo sapiens, who went from living in small isolated groups in Africa to being the most numerous mammals on earth during a period of 150,000 years. He attributed the evolved cognitive ability of foresight as the main reason for the transformation. “Foresight is the very definition of what it is to be human,” declared Suzuki, who continued by remarking that humans have “[turned] our backs on the very means that we have depended on” by ignoring...
...leprechaunish here, with round bellies and bottoms, like the Munchkins in MGM's Oz--persuasively played by jockey-size actors. James Loye, as Frodo, and Peter Howe, as Sam, get the message that heroes are ordinary folk who rise under extraordinary circumstances. In this predominantly Canadian cast, the other main roles are handsomely filled. But the show stealer is Michael Therriault as Gollum. Hissing and squealing, writhing convulsively to express Gollum's two warring psyches (the hobbit he was, the half-life creature his ring lust has made of him), Therriault gives the most virtuoso schizo turn since Steve Martin...