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...last year's runners-up, played rough, unselfish basketball, but they are more admired than beloved. And then there were those Los Angeles Lakers, three-peat winners from 2000-2002. First, they won too much - nobody likes a ball hog. Then, the whole Shaquille O'Neal/Kobe Bryant soap opera wore us out. Shaq says Kobe is selfish. Kobe says Shaq is fat. Let's watch Gilmore Girls instead...
...narrow artist. The English concentrator confesses that film is his passion. He has spent his summers working for production companies such as Fox and Sony Pictures Studio. Back on the East Coast, the Tom Cruise look-alike has starred in Harvard-Radcliffe Television’s soap opera, Ivory Tower. Fisher seamlessly blended his extracurricular and academic pursuits in his award-winning creative thesis. His thesis, which was a screenplay about a Harvard graduate who avoided the Vietnam draft by teaching in a military prep school, garnered the Le Baron Russell Briggs prize. After graduation...
...humanities offerings, with courses that include “The American Novel,” “The History of Modern Moral Philosophy,” “World Religions: Diversity and Dialogue,” “Asian Modernities,” “Opera,” and “Survey of World Art,” I realized we already have much in place that opens doors for our students...
...subsequent resignation. I fear that some of the most important sides of his multifaceted presidency will be lost in an effort to dramatize an unquestionably tumultuous five years. In particular, the prejudice of history may overlook his tremendous commitment to undergraduates, an aria of Summers’ tragic opera for which I was lucky enough to hold a front-row seat.You see, by some strange alignment of the stars, President Summers was my freshman year academic adviser. I’m not quite sure how or why it happened, although luck and my interest in economics played a part. Whatever...
...carpet moment, even as he pleads that he's a little bewildered by it all. The experience, he says, reminds him of a New Yorker cartoon that used to hang on the wall of his Senate office. It showed a funny-looking dog riding a tricycle onstage in an opera house, to rapturous applause from a fancy audience. Gore can relate to what the caption says the dog is thinking: "I don't know why they like this, but I'm going to keep on pedaling...