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...Party's youngest M.P. Labour had just fought and lost a disastrous election campaign on a far-left platform, and Margaret Thatcher, fresh from her victory in the Falklands War, was in her pomp. The opposition to Thatcher was limited to a few ancient warhorses and a handful of bright young things. Blair, boyish Blair, quickly became one of the best of the breed...
Some of the biggest surprises in the midst of this enormous crisis were the small bright spots. The study showed that a number of existing programs were remarkably effective in propelling dead-end students toward a diploma. Transfer schools--small, personalized high schools specially designed for kids who have fallen seriously behind--had a 56% graduation rate, compared with 19% for such high-risk kids at ordinary high schools, and some transfer schools were graduating nearly 70%. Another program, Young Adult Borough Centers (YABCs), which operates in the late afternoon and evening for students 17 or older, was enabling about...
With a kind smile and bright demeanor, Emily K. Vasiliauskas ’07 doesn’t seem a likely match for the cryptic, tenebrous Paul Celan, a mid 20th-century German-Jewish poet who famously wrote works about the Holocaust. Nonetheless, her thesis explored what she terms “ineffability as a philosophical problem” in Celan’s work, or “how to talk about what you can’t talk about.”As a co-Editor-in-Chief of The Harvard Gamut, a poetry editor on Persephone...
...Portador del Corazón,” choreographed by Joshua Legg, did not prove much better than “Untitled.” The costumes were unpleasant, unflattering, and distracting—clashing bright green and blue velour leotards matched with too-long white tulle skirts. A trio unfortunately dressed in bright blue gave a particularly sloppy performance, one of which opened with an extremely messy pirouette turn. A pair in green entered with leaps that, because of their bent front legs and little altitude, were disappointing to watch. Nonetheless, Sarah C. Kenney ’08 (also...
Thankfully, “Bravura and Blues” soon took a turn for the better. “A Little Happy, A Little Sad,” choreographed by Kenney, began and ended with visually gorgeous poses—black silhouettes against a bright blue background. The costuming choice was simple: elegant leotards that allowed the audience to see the dancers’ successes and mistakes alike, with no distraction from the outfits...