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...Stephen Prina—who teaches Bethel’s directed research at Harvard—says of the scene, “Izzy decided, ‘Just a minute. I’m going to follow that ambulance.’ It could be a plausible narrative thread as much as something else. It challenges the concept of the narrative...
...relationship between African and Asian Americans in the United States. Presiding as keynote speaker, Tang, who offered a dual perspective as a scholar of both Afro-Am Studies at University of Illinois in Chicago and Asian-American Studies at Harvard, said that Asian and African Americans have a common thread of struggle in American history. Tang said that the civil rights movement of the 1960s was the first “revolution” in this country whose challenges were shared by both groups. AAA Co-Vice President Austin Chu ’10, a who also helped organize...
...organization of the tournament was changed to parallel the house format, with matches consisting of one men’s singles, one women’s singles, and one mixed doubles. Each dorm is also required to field that number of teams. In a heated Canaday e-mail thread, Julienne K. Coleman ’11 criticized the decision for overlooking the “tireless recruitment, the explosion of pride, the electric excitement that hadn’t coursed through this brick prison since fall semester.” According to Canday residents, the prospects of participating...
Thus the common thread on these shows: there are no external circumstances you cannot overcome by improving your internal attitude. On The Biggest Loser, weight loss is about positivity, not genes; on Big Give, your ability to better yourself is limited only by your willingness to help others; on Gunn's and Kressley's shows, your problem is not in your hips but in your head. We want the shows, like the Wizard of Oz, to tell us that we had courage, brains and heart inside us all along...
...officer in the ROTC battalion based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said the opportunity to hear the experiences and advice of a veteran space-walker of two shuttle missions developed entirely by chance. “[Burbank] stopped by our office, given that we share the military thread, and asked for parking since MIT didn’t give him a space,” Gowel said. According to President of the Aviation Club Emanuel Beica ’11, Gowel heard of the club’s December helicopter ride and asked if Harvard would be interested...