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...Tania Head told her story of survival again and again, quietly and memorably, so that the atrocities of 9/11 would not be forgotten. She told it to me in the summer of 2004, over coffee in Times Square. Head was on the 78th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center when a plane struck the building, she said. The fire burned her terribly. She made it out, only to discover that she'd left her life behind: her fiancé was in the North Tower, she said, and he had died. She did not dwell...
...Elizabeth Lint, executive officer of the Cambridge License Commission, said the fare increase will help cab drivers meet rising costs. Lint attributed the fare hike to “higher costs of living, insurance, motor vehicle repairs, and not to mention gas prices.” Tania L. Stewart ’06 has taken taxis to Logan Airport in the past, but prefers to take the T because “it’s easy and cost effective.” “With prices as high as they are, I don’t understand...
...original and powerful mixture of humor and solemnity, the performances were as varying as their topics. “Musings” was a spicy mixture of pop culture, personal identity, South Asian heritage and tasteful ethnic humor, while “The Matchmaker,” written by Tania R. James ’03 and performed by Munshi and Namarata Bhasin, made fun of the superficial public identities that South Asian Americans adopt—such as becoming a doctor, earning a lot of money, and marrying a “good Indian...
...everyone wanted to be Clarissa, and everyone had an annoying sibling [like Ferguson, Clarissa’s Republican younger brother]. It’s a shame [that they’re moving more to cartoons]. How can you relate to Spongebob?” Tania L. Stewart ’06 “I was on ‘What Would You Do?’ with my brother and my parents while we were on vacation in Orlando….I got to dump a bucket of water on my dad’s head...
...Australia's hottest jazz at the Courtyard, an outdoor venue behind the arts center at Hobart's historic Salamanca Place. Come Friday nights, it's packed with hundreds of people drinking, dancing and socializing to an ever-changing roster of bands. "We play, rain, hail or shine," says organizer Tania Bosak, a Croatian immigrant and live wire on the local arts scene who started the evenings five years ago. There's no cover charge-instead, band members walk around between sets holding out hats and caps for "gold-coin donations" (small-denomination silver change is frowned upon). But what...