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...each. "She saw the army," says Bill, laughing. "She said, 'Hey, there's an army out here.' And I said, 'Yeah, wait until you see the picture of you. It's not too good.' It was just gigantic! You know, Mao would have been so jealous!" Some couples have ballroom dancing. The Gateses have saving the world. And they like to do it the uncomfortable way, by looking straight into lives they know nothing about. Paul Farmer, a public-health pioneer, has been host to them both in Haiti. "I think they, unlike many people, have allowed themselves to remain...
...Together, they represent a broad array of extracurricular activities. Sheel C. Ganatra ’06 was president of Dharma last year and plays the trombone with the Jazz Band. Shahabi wrote and directed a short film called “Joy.” Inna Livitz joined Harvard Ballroom, which she said provided her with much-needed relaxation. “You need an outlet because you can’t be working all the time,” Livitz said. Kumar said that he values being involved in REACH, a program that pairs Harvard students with special-needs...
...loving mother who taught us each how to fox-trot at an early age, or by my grandparents, Kathryn and Arthur Murray, who spawned a generation of jitter-bugging, tango-lovin’ dancers during the Depression. The Murrays built a successful franchise of teaching studios and later brought ballroom to the masses through television, erasing the class signifiers that had accompanied certain dance steps. At the beginning of their program, immediately following a live advertisement for Newports, Alkaseltzer, or the like, my grandmother would glide onto the stage—SNL style—perform a short monologue...
This summer’s ballroom dancing hit, ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars,” enraptured the nation. But while most merely dreamed of dancing gracefully, Harvard student Mariko E. Cantley ’06 was living that Ginger Rogers-esque dream. Having only first tried ballroom dancing the summer before her freshman year, Mariko spent last summer traveling, practicing; finally, she decided to go professional with ballroom dancing.Like most girls, I started dancing ballet at age five. And I continued with ballet until the end of my junior year in high school...
...chilling performance aired on Jordan's Channel 1 only hours later, Rishawi twirled her body around as she modeled the hand-made explosives belt that she tried but failed to detonate in the hotel's ballroom on November 9. As if in a trance, she then coldly recounted the plan. "There was a wedding at the hotel, with children, women and men inside," she said, explaining the choice of target. Her husband then took one corner of the ballroom, she took another. "I tried to explode [my belt] but it wouldn't," she said. But Rishawi's husband managed...