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...infrequent for Harvard students to gain this kind of mystique. If you consider that the buzzword at my roommate’s pre-orientation program was “heteronormativity,” you’ll surely realize that the step to phallogocentrism and Hindi/Urdu is not arduous. After four years in Cambridge we are ready to engage absolutely anyone in chat. We’ll call some abstrusity our specialty, and thanks to the Core, the rest will be covered...
...equally paradoxical that Harvard won’t do anything to ease the arduous, arbitrary process of naturalization. Why doesn’t the HIO sponsor international students through legal advice and guidance, the way it does for professors and high-level researchers? The College appears to pride itself in its diverse student body. “Our undergraduates come from all over the United States as well as 80 countries and have a rich mix of interests, backgrounds, and talents,” its admissions homepage proclaims. Harvard values the diversity that international students bring to the table?...
Algren may be in Japan, but he quickly develops a case of Stockholm Syndrome. Under the influence of his dignified captors, Algren learns Japanese, rediscovers his inner goodness, and, in the course of one arduous morning, overcomes his alcoholism. Twelve steps aren’t necessary in this Land of the Rising Sun: from the patronizing perspective of The Last Samurai, all an American expatriate needs is a kimono and a hearty bowl of rice to be spiritually cleansed and freed from Western corruption...
Though Balestracci has been successful in that regard, the road taken by this year’s Crimson squad has been arduous and the obstacles its captain has faced have been numerous. Injuries and the untimely defeats to which they contributed have made this season and its outcome—regardless of the result against Yale—far less successful than originally anticipated...
...Carnegie Hall. Helped by his parents' heroic scrimping, Lang Lang overcame poverty in the city of Shenyang, which had only one dusty Steinway. His father gave up his job as a policeman to take the 8-year-old Lang Lang to Beijing for a year and a half of arduous preparations for the Central Conservatory. At 15, after winning two international competitions, the prodigy made the leap to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. By the time he stepped in for an ailing Andre Watts at Chicago's Ravinia Festival in 1999, the classical establishment was ready to embrace...