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Emma S. Mackinnon ’05 is not afraid of standing out in a crowd. Since the fall of her freshman year, Mackinnon has taken her passion for service workers’ rights at Harvard from the bargaining table to the asphalt outside of Massachusetts Hall, lighting fires under the proverbial seats of Harvard’s most influential decision-makers...
Nanbei street, a ragged strip of asphalt not far from the south bank of the Yellow River, used to be the embodiment of China's racial harmony. Each day, the Muslim call to prayer from Nanren village, populated with the Hui descendants of Silk Road traders, mixed in with the calls to commerce from the vegetable market in the neighboring Weitang village, inhabited by China's Han majority. As testament to its ethnic tolerance, Nanbei Street is lined with fresh-meat stands catering equally to the dietary preferences of the Han and the Hui. Last week, though, after a traffic...
FILM | The Asphalt Jungle...
...that spring afternoon on the football field five years ago. The problem now, as then, was not motive: there were enough good intentions on the Weeks Footbridge and on my high school’s Leo Shields Football Field to cover the road from here to Hell in asphalt several times over. The problem was that we were window-dressing. The problem was the vague sense of self-satisfaction that hovered over us on the football field and on the bridge. There is a sort of grief that is too deep, and there are problems that are too vast...
...line of vehicles that snakes up the main road to the beachside suburb of Vouliagmeni, stymied by a local bus that seems to stop every 50 m. "One hundred fifty-six euros," Spyros says, nodding enviously at the empty outside lane. The five red rings on the shimmering asphalt mark it as reserved for official Olympic transport, and the fine is savage...