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...While inebriated revelers hobbled by the shelter in pursuit of piping hot Sicilian slices from Pinnochio’s, I assisted four student volunteers and two especially dedicated leaders staff the shelter’s 9 to 11 p.m. shift. We put away the food taken out during the previous shift, cleaned dishes, took turns scurrying to various Harvard Square shops such as Tealuxe that donate leftover food, and offered companionship to the shelter’s occupants. We also made sure to sate the appetites of ravenous late arrivals—grilled cheese sandwiches were particularly popular items that...
...that my mother isn’t white. Whiteness isn’t concrete. It’s not as apparent or obvious as people make it out to be. It’s negotiated. It’s constructed. It’s malleable. Its boundaries shift so often that groups once categorically relegated to non-white status, groups highly racialized—like the Irish, the Italians, the Germans—are now firmly in the white camp. I’ll still poke fun at it, just as I jest about my father’s English...
...Whatever the reasons, Harris wants to shift the audience's take on Lecter from horrified fascination to pity, or sympathy, or empathy. Hannibal Rising is his most explicit defense: not guilty by reason of insanity, with its roots in a childhood trauma...
...tallest player in the Blackbirds’ rotation is 6’7—LIU committed its defensive resources to plugging the middle, routinely getting guards to shade towards the interior and give help when the ball got deep. That left the outside open, and not even a shift from 2-3 zone to man-to-man defense when Goffredo was in the game, a sign of respect for the Crimson’s senior marksman, prevented him from getting more good looks than usual. “They were definitely sagging off me when...
...President whom the military ousted and probably killed, hardly shared Pinochet's bloodlust; but his government had indeed run Marxist-amuck by 1973. The economy was in state-run free fall and radical but influential leftist groups were calling for (if not already trying to carry out) an armed shift to Cuba-style communism. Pinochet always asserted that he was not part of a coup but a "civil war." In that sense, Pinochet maintained until his death that he had "saved" Chile...