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...When they met, Claudel was 17, the daughter of a provincial French bureaucrat so dedicated to his gifted children that he moved the family to Paris to further their education. (It paid off twice. Camille's younger brother would grow up to be the famous poet, diplomat and archconservative Catholic Paul Claudel.) Rodin was 41, on the brink of fame after decades of frustration. He was also a dedicated satyr. The dancer Isadora Duncan, whom he would meet some years later, once said that whenever they were together she felt like "a nymph in front of a centaur." Though Rodin...
Kopko and his brother Matthew Kopko, a sophomore at Princeton, founded DormAid last spring to offer professional cleaning services for dorm rooms on both of their campuses. The service has since expanded to Boston University, Babson College, Dickinson College, New York University, and University of Pennsylvania...
...Thou shalt spend most of your waking hours playing video games. Freshman year all we did was drink Busch Lights that we got from some kid’s older brother at a very uncompetitive rate and play “NBA Street” until we could actually feel the ambition dripping out of our bodies. (We’re not sure what girls did during these time periods, but we’re pretty sure they were having chats in their underwear and sowing seeds of mistrust. Either that or juicing older bros...
Motley is survived by three sisters, a brother, her husband, and her son, Joel Motley III ’74, who also attended Harvard Law School...
Learning from New Orleans I am a 62-year-old white woman responding to the pitch-perfect words of my black brother Wynton Marsalis. In his Essay "Saving America's Soul Kitchen" [Sept. 19], he wrote, "We always back away from fixing our nation's racial problems. Not fixing the city's levees before Katrina struck will now cost us untold billions. Not resolving the nation's issues of race and class has and will cost us so much more." America, listen to those words or reap the consequences. If the cries of human suffering don't move us, perhaps...