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...frequent visits to many a Mount Auburn St. mansion. I go because, on a Saturday night, there is more appeal in spending time in spacious lounges with people I’m likely to know than in an unfamiliar sweaty dorm room in some shady corner of campus...
...eastern edge of Accra, Ghana's capital, pumping my hand with the energy and strength of a man 20 years younger. The living room was painted electric blue, and a gold vase of plastic flowers sat on the coffee table. There was a small television in the corner and a telephone that mewed like a cat when someone rang. More than once on my visits in April and again last August, Kwame repeated an adage that an old schoolteacher of his had used: There is no such thing as African time, the idea that things in Africa run slowly...
...much bandy about terms like career development and change catalyst. Today, why we work is much more complex. There's still the roof, of course, but success is also measured by the freedom to pursue a lifelong passion, exploit a hidden talent or even try to save one small corner of the world at a time. No amount of success seems to scratch the itch; a survey by Netshare, a career site for high-earning executives, found that almost half its subjects are actively trying to transition into a new field...
...Aktipis said. Kumar, Aktipis, and Ashley R. Fure, another resident tutor in Cabot, retrieved a master key to all I-entryway rooms and began grabbing laptops from rooms in an attempt to salvage students’ property. “With senior theses due right around the corner, we wanted to make sure the laptops didn’t drown,” Aktipis said. As news of the burst pipe spread, e-mails bemoaning the “shitwater” inundating I entryway started flooding Cabot’s open list. Anxious students were quickly calmed...
...Saltimbanques,” and its quiet innocence is engulfed by the vigor and sexuality of the surrounding photographs. Though the show is full of photographic gems, the breadth at times feels scattered and diffuse. Shoddy prints of some of Clergue’s famous friends clog a far corner downstairs, contributing to an overall squeeze that is just too tight. Ultimately, however, the scope of the collection highlights the many variations Clergue plays on each theme as well as the creativity and technical mastery necessary to do so successfully. —Staff writer Jeremy S. Singer-Vine...