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...students like Makolin. Back in 2004, when she was a senior in high school, Makolin was named Ann Arbor News Young Citizen of the Year - in large part because she volunteered at multiple food banks. "I find somewhat ironic that I am now on the other side of the counter," she says...
...Sheeleigh, and Wylie all managing early shots. Yale also created some good chances. Freshman Hino Miyuki sent a shot over after a well-slotted ball into the middle of the Crimson’s goal-box. Harvard doubled its lead 10 minutes into the half off of a quick counter-attack from a blocked shot by Miyuki. A ball from Sheeleigh sent Baskind in behind the Yale defense, but Sumiyasu saved Baskind’s shot and Sheeleigh’s follow-up effort off the rebound was cleared from the goal line. The ball fell to Baskind, who finished...
...alimony, the alternative to which is a heavily-taxed severance that leaves the divorced wife with only a small fraction of the original sum. These clauses the government added to the Family Support Bill were met with tremendous contestation by the Iranian women’s rights movement, whose counter-attacks included the “One Million Signatures Campaign” against the act and against similar laws allowing men uncontested rights to child custody, polygamy, and divorce...
...Shea’s life, I am reminded of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, who argued that God deserves special praise for “all things counter, original, spare, strange.” Perhaps this explains why, when the wrecking balls begin to gouge holes in Shea’s alienating concrete exterior this fall, I will feel a peculiar yet visceral pang of sadness...
...Deresiewicz left Yale earlier this year, according to Elsa S. Kim ’08-’09, who helped organize the event. Deresiewicz said that being a thinker is very different from being a leader. “I am telling you to be counter-cultural,” he said. “Forget about Harvard. Forget about all the other prestigious institutions you have gone through.” The discussion panel was organized by the Humanities Center’s undergraduate committee. Kim said that the purpose of the discussion panel was not to start...