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...Lesser ‘07, president of the Harvard College Democrats. Lesser says that his Judaism is especially important to him, and that Jewish values, such as tzedekah (justice or charity), tikkun olam (healing the world), and mitzvah (God’s moral commandments), make him a Democrat.The Dems boast many Jewish members like Lesser, but Harvard Dems member Kyle A. Krahel ’08 claims that like the HRC, it “is not a monolithic religious group.”Outspoken and passionate—and still a practicing Christian—Krahel confesses that...
...losing students while other communities that have just as high housing costs as we have are gaining [students],” Nolan said, referring to the increase in school enrollment reported by Lexington and Wellesley. The two towns boast median house values of $417,400 and $548,100, respectively, in contrast to Cambridge’s median house value of $398,500, according to City-Data.com for the year...
...Bush?s visit to Afghanistan makes him the first president since Dwight D. Eisenhower went there in 1959.) At a time when a new CBS/New York Times poll shows his approval rating sinking back to the mid-thirties, those are some of the few things he can really boast about...
Valedictorians, All-American athletes, the occasional best-selling author...Harvard’s freshman class demographics are downright intimidating. Yet only one special frosh can boast having his own reality TV show, self-produced music videos, wedding filming service, and popstar-like fame on campus. Peter C. Shields Jr.’s ’09 latest music video, “Aphroditi,” which he produced, directed, and starred in, features the crooner in a number of suggestive scenes singing Greek and English lyrics that he penned himself. In the video, the often bare-chested...
...seems as if director Sanaa Hamri has just slapped new characters and a new background into the generic formula for romantic comedy. Not to say that the formula doesn’t work. “Something New” is definitely enjoyable. While perhaps it does not boast the most creative of plots, it emanates a happy tingle that makes up for a good deal of its deficiencies in originality...