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...answer was that it was an act of self-preservation - "That's what all heroes are made of." I disagree that heroism is rooted in self-preservation. The soldier who throws himself on a grenade to save his buddies or the citizen who pulls a stranger from a burning car knowingly reduces his chance of survival to increase that of another. It is the willingness to risk one's life for a noble purpose that should define an act of heroism, not the saving of somebody's life coincident with saving your own - and certainly not the instinct for self...
...parent who has sat at traffic lights with The Wheels on the Bus blaring out the car window knows, after the stork arrives, it flies away with your last shred of cool. But help is at hand in the form of Colours Are Brighter, a compilation of 13 original songs[an error occurred while processing this directive] by alternative rock acts put together by Belle and Sebastian's Mick Cooke. Issued on Rough Trade, the label that evolved from the legendary punk-era London record shop, it's specifically for kids ("and grownups too" acknowledges the small print...
...turned into the library parking lot and saw seven or eight protesters gathered along a fence: several older women and what looked to be a family - a man and woman with two young children. I got out of the car, walked up to the group, and introduced myself. The man shook my hand hesitantly and told me his name. He looked to be about my age, in jeans, a plaid shirt, and a St. Louis Cardinals cap. His wife shook my hand as well, but the older women kept their distance. The children, maybe 9 or 10 years old, stared...
Friends of Hui Wang ’08, the Eliot biochemical sciences concentrator killed in a car crash in New York’s Catskill Mountains Oct. 7, are rallying to raise funds for his family...
...Wang’s funeral is scheduled for 11 a.m. tomorrow (Tuesday) at the Wing Kook Funeral Home in Boston, the director of Harvard University Health Services announced this afternoon. Wang, a junior biochemical sciences concentrator in Eliot House, was killed in a car crash Oct. 7 in the Catskill Mountains of New York. University Health Services chief David S. Rosenthal ’59 said he was asked by Wang’s family to publicize the funeral to the Harvard community. Harvard paid for Wang’s parents, who live in Guangzhou, China, to travel...