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...what about her workload? “Oh God!” she laughs. Every week, Brown balances 27 hours of class, nine hours of lab, 15 hours of dancing (she’s an assistant captain of the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballroom Dance Club) and a job as a course assistant for an Extension School calculus class (to pay for those dance lessons). Sometimes it all scares her, but her optimism and confidence win out. “I’ll get through it,” she declares. “I do not procrastinate. I plan ahead...
...fashionista to name her favorite brand, and chances are you never heard of it before. Does Bella Dahl ring a bell? Or Ballroom? The Reeds or the Wrights? You may have a closet crammed with Gucci stilettos and Prada backpacks, and you may even know how to pronounce Nicholas Ghesquiere's last name, but these days if you really want to hug the trends, you need to have some hot little label that nobody's heard of. In the new millennium, it's the small, unknown fashion brands that are wielding power and influence over both the consumer...
...services; there are now more than 60,000 such units across the country, funded by a combination of government and private organizations. While the buildings are not licensed like mental hospitals, nurses, social workers and psychologists keep office hours. In midtown Manhattan's Prince George Hotel, which has a ballroom, a restored lobby and salon, former street dwellers bake cookies, use the computer lab and take Pilates and yoga classes. Director Nancy Porcaro says the surroundings give the homeless enough help and pride to better themselves. "People do rise to the occasion, despite what the mainstream may think. They want...
...over winter break, 17 members of the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team did just that, traveling through four Chinese cities hosted by the U.S.-China Media and Publishing Association...
...trip was the vision of Tufts University Professor of Chinese James Wang, who was struck by the idea of ballroom dancing as a medium for cultural exchange. Wang, who helps with the ballroom team at Tufts, said he was most impressed with the dynamic of Harvard’s team...