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...Amidst all the diversity at Harvard, I think my situation is unique. From about 1,600 students in the freshman class only 3.2 percent are Other Hispanics. And of these 50 or so non-Mexican, non-Puerto-Rican Hispanics in the class of 1997, I may be the only dedicated conservative...
Japan, with growth rates far out-stripping our own, and endowed with a huge trade surpuls, was cast as a country with a future, while America was depicted sinking amidst the decrepit wreckage of a glorious past...
...more tactile than visual, it is a simile so original, massive, and vivid that it forces you to touch what shocks you. The twin holes of the bowling ball suggest the dichotomy between good and evil, sex and love, shit and "shit." The reader senses bitterness and self-recrimination amidst unrepentant profanity...
...empowering. Marching with a group of women up to the Quad, through areas such as the Cambridge Commons which are notoriously dangerous, can be an exhilarating experience. It's knowing that for one night during the year, something can be done to eradicate the darkness--that there is safety amidst a crowd of women who otherwise may have no connection with one another. It's the knowledge that there are women who have been survivors of incest, sexual abuse, violence--and have been strong enough to emerge victorious from it and share their experiences with others...
Hopefully, we've managed to elicit a few laughs and smiles amidst the groans over the years. Harvard students, after all, are the toughest of critics...