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Currently, having just turned 71, Alfaro continues to write every day and is in the midst of her latest play about an Asian-American professor at Harvard on the cusp of old age. “When you write, everything in your life falls through the filter of the play. Sometimes it’s hard [to] extricate yourself,” Alfaro said...

Author: By Erika P. Pierson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rosana Y. Alfaro | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...economy stands on the cusp of a recovery, the University must decide how it will situate itself in a changed financial landscape, one much different from the boom years of the early 2000s...

Author: By Elias J. Groll and Noah S. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: A Blank Slate | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

When wind speeds prior to the match wavered around the cusp of the legal limit, the coaches were faced with the choice of playing inside or outside. By remaining outside, they chose to make the wind a significant part of the game...

Author: By Stephanie E. Herwatt, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Men's Tennis Swept on Road To Open Conference Play | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

...cusp of human knowledge, particle physics can seem esoteric indeed. But the LHC's findings may have implications that go beyond pure science. CERN, a pan-European project dedicated to peaceful nuclear research, was founded in the late 1940s as a sort of atonement for the legacies of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and two wars during which Europeans slaughtered one another by the millions - many of CERN's elder scientists vividly remember the instability, randomness and despair that characterized that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Collider Matters: In Search of the 'God Particle' | 4/3/2010 | See Source »

...couple may have begun their new lives together on the cusp of a new year, but even as they replace Professor Richard W. Wrangham and Elizabeth A. Ross as Currier House Masters this fall, they will not stray from their initial raison d’être: to share their experiences with others and promote human rights and social justice...

Author: By Danielle J. Kolin and Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Dedicated To The Cause: Activists To Take the Helm at Currier House | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

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