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...growing Mormon religion. This juxtaposition of Mormonism, a relatively unassimilated religion in America, and the diverse ranks of Olympic competitors and viewers, is a familiar one for the Mormons at Harvard who deal with clashing cultures every day. Salt Lake City’s position as the stage for amateur athletic glory means that more people are talking about what it means to be Mormon. For their part, Harvard student members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints are eager to engage in the conversation...
...spent the last year developing the program to address the lack of live amateur concerts on WHRB...
...Alfred Hitchcock, who was canonized early on and remains a universally acknowledged god of cinema, Lang’s road to directorial fame was an oblique one. Although denounced by Siegfried Kracauer as a fascist in the forties, and then heralded by the French Cahiers du Cinema as an amateur in the sixties, his work has received a surprising dearth of critical attention. It has only been in the last few years that critics have begun to exhume many of his films and give him credit for his important contributions to the history of cinema. With his foreboding and apocalyptic...
...says, “like at [Chu’s Connecticut prep school] Choate, but with more freedom. It’s a whole other world.” But before she enters this other world, Chu is immersed in the fast-paced, icy world of elite amateur athletics...
...trained only on roller skis, a piece of metal with two wheels at the end. The last 2% was when I was racing. That's when I have skied on snow, when I was racing for qualification in Alaska and Canada. It's just terrible. I'm such an amateur skier and I have to deal with no snow! It's tough...