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...Samuels’ tone—balanced between sarcastic and vulnerable, innocent and disillusioned—invites the reader to connect with his text. No matter what he’s discussing, Samuels writes non-judgmentally and makes it possible to identify with his subjects, even if that person daydreams about using his knowledge of demolition for acts of terrorism. Samuels universalizes his subjects, presenting a world that is no longer governed by God or tradition, one in which his subjects struggle to reconstitute a shattered belief system and grapple to find meaning. When writing about a rehabilitation program, Samuels...
...peace." Salbi's organization works to help women recover from the ravages of war and become active citizens by offering direct aid, job training, micro-credit loans, rights awareness and leadership education. Most of all, it gives women a voice. Salbi's group organizes "women's circles," which connect 20 local women in support networks, and recruits sponsors--"sisters"--around the world who correspond with the war-affected women regularly by letter...
Through her work as an actress, Sophie C. Kargman ’08—the recipient of this year’s Jonathan Levy Award in Drama—has really learned how to connect with people, and not just the directors, mentors, and other actors she’s worked with. Kargman also finds earnest ways to relate to her fictional characters.“I felt a lot for her,” Kargman says of Theresa, the central character of Rebecca Gilman’s “Boy Gets Girl” and a role...
...become a committed Obama activist, helping to recruit hundreds of volunteers and spread his candidate's message. In February 2007, Warner's wife prodded him to read Obama's book The Audacity of Hope. Soon he was logging onto www.barackobama.com and creating a Facebook-like page, hoping to connect with nearby Obamanistas. There were few, so he set up a site on the campaign's homepage for local union workers, and another one for any South Bend resident...
...become a thriving but little-known subculture for a few students on campus. Indeed, there are indications that the relative obscurity of the jazz program is not a negative phenomenon: not only does it mirror the status of jazz outside of Harvard, but it has allowed student devotees to connect with some of the most prominent jazz musicians in the world. THE MAN FROM ITHACAThe man who best exemplifies the small but well-connected status of jazz at Harvard is Thomas G. Everett, who came to Harvard in 1971. Everett graduated from the Ithaca College Conservatory and was teaching public...