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...Alums recall Kristof as one of the brightest undergraduates on campus—he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in three years and earned a Rhodes Scholarship. But he didn’t strike his peers as the type who would be held up at machine-gunpoint in Beirut and elude rebels chasing him through the jungle in Congo...
...have to choose. So I focused on my academic work and made The Crimson secondary,” he writes. “But I still spent a huge number of hours there, and I’d say that the people there were about the brightest of any group I’ve ever been around...
...Relying on his intelligence, busi-ness flair and never-say-die attitude, Koné is an all-too-rare success story: a young black man from the kind of blighted, unemployment-racked French suburban housing projects that erupted in riots last year. In addition to being one of the brightest lights to have come from the banlieues, Koné is trying to change the system. Without the massive capital and worldwide production resources that the older brands such as Nike and Adidas possess, Koné has used the Airness allure to handpick partners licensed to produce the brand's sportswear...
...extreme measures, and suffers the memory of finding her dead mother (a suicide victim who shot herself--another gun!). The children in Babel are complicated human beings, just like the adults. And they are certainly crucial to Iñárritu. He dedicates the film "To my sons, the brightest lights in the darkest night." For all the trouble they endure, all the trouble they cause, they have to be the hope of our future. They are our future. You'll grant me that...
...whole new world for these Quincy Cage stalwarts, but, with their legion of faithful knights and outlandish stage antics, So Long Princess is more than up to the challenge. All in all, the student-band lineup for Arts First showcases some of Harvard’s best and brightest. For the sonically gluttonous looking for more than the groups featured above, Sunday’s Band Fest, a rapid-fire series of a dozen bands (one every half-hour) from 12-5:30 p.m. in front of Holyoke Center, should delight. Promising to have something for everyone, the performers?...