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Last weekend, two Harvard students traveled to Evry, France to compete in the World Amateur 10-dance Competition. They have been partners for seven years and are the top-ranked amateur ballroom dancing team in the United States. Together they have helped the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team in its four-year undefeated streak and its number-one collegiate ranking...
Brother and sister duo Alexander M. Fung '98 and Jennifer M. Fung '97 began dancing when they were 10 and 11 years old at the urging of their parents, both of whom are amateur ballroom enthusiasts...
Last November the first U.S. representatives to the World Amateur Standard Competition in Vienna were Victor and Tiffany Fung. Tiffany is currently a sophomore in high school...
...combination library, clubhouse, nature-study lab and community center, has had no small part in the transformation. Operating with a paid staff of just five and an annual budget of $400,000, only 20% of it from government sources, Sister Carol's troops have herded dealers off corners, used amateur detectives to rat out nuisance bars, covered graffiti with murals and planted gardens in vacant lots. Hundreds of volunteers have made that possible...
...businessman, and in appearance he has a slightly academic rumple. But people in the design community tell another story, of dinners for 15 or so at the Arnaults' home in the elegant 16th arrondissement. There he relaxes and heads for the piano (favorite composer: Chopin). He calls himself an amateur pianist; he practices twice a week, still learning new pieces. His wife Helene is a concert pianist who has just finished a Canadian tour. "We once gave a concert together," Bernard recalls. "But once was enough--too much work." Mme. Arnault plays a different sort of duet with Bernard; Lacroix...