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Several years ago I was strolling through an old neighborhood of Shanghai when I spied a scrum of men carrying something out of a darkened doorway. It was a rattan chair on which sat a very agitated granny. She was one of the last holdouts refusing to leave her house, which was scheduled to be torn down to make way for Xintiandi, Shanghai's sprawling outdoor shopping-and-restaurant development. As she was borne out, like some parody of an imperial courtesan in a eunuch-shouldered sedan chair, the Mao-suited woman kept screaming a phrase in Shanghainese. I asked...
...public, and followed by a celebration to award the children for their hard work and dedication. “The kids write the shows themselves,” says Sarah K. Satinover ’08, STAGE’s former President, the board’s current social chair, and a continuing volunteer. “It’s completely their own original work.” Around 60 children participate in STAGE’s afterschool program, as well as over 20 undergraduate volunteers from Harvard. “The sites are selected because they have suffered...
...coveted summer situation due to inappropriate posts on his wall. “I’m not aware of any fellowships selection committees looking at students’ profiles on Facebook, but I suppose it’s certainly possible,” Lowell House Fellowships Committee Chair Joshua D. Goldman wrote in an e-mail. “Anything on Facebook, MySpace.com, personal webpages, etc. is obviously publicly accessible so that others—including potential employers, fellowships and admissions committees, professors, peers, etc.—can see it.” There are other potential hazards...
...they continue to remember that we have such a diverse set of members from different backgrounds.” Other newly-elected officers for the 2007-2008 year include Kiran N. Bhat ’10 as treasurer, Russell F. Rennie ’10 as academic and political chair, Amrapali Maitra ’10 as cultural chair, Joseph G. Thumpasery ’10 as social chair, Ria S. Tobaccowala ’10 as outreach chair, Visali V. Ramanathan ’10 as publicity chair, Kavita Narayanadas ’09 as historian, and Vani...
...sustainable farm since May 2003, which attracts approximately 200 student volunteers, according to Laura Hess, who petitioned to start the project before she graduated in 2006. Yale sells its produce at local farmers’ markets and to local restaurants. Elizabeth R. Shope ’09, the co-chair of the Sustainable Allston subcommittee who is spearheading the project, declined to comment yesterday, saying that she did not want to jeopardize the farm with premature publicity. But in a promotional video posted in December on an environmental blog, Shope said that a sustainable farm would be a good...