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During the Cornel West era, Harvard Af-Am was the precocious new kid on the block, a relative youngster wowing everybody in the academic world. Now, although West is gone, AAAS finds itself at the dawn of a new era, having broadened its scope and unified its disciplines...
...imminent horrible weather, I’m not sure how I’m going to feel about getting up so early, but both times [I have attended] it’s been a lot of fun,” Tesfai said. Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) Fitness Program Manager Dawn Murdock said that the group exercise programs offer multiple advantages to people of all types of fitness. “Most people, if they work out on their own, are not internally motivated,” Murdock said. “Most people are motivated by external factors?...
...called off; some even went on hurricane sleepovers. On Sunday night before the storm hit, Jonathon Pedroz, 13, ate pizza and played 2 Fast 2 Furious video games with friends in a 23rd-floor waterfront condominium north of Miami. They fell asleep at 3 a.m., but were roused at dawn when Wilma arrived with more than 100 m.p.h. winds. Since Wilma came ashore on Florida's west coast, many had hoped it would weaken before it hit the east; instead it sped across the Everglades like a high-power airboat. At Pedroz's building, the storm shattered sliding glass doors...
...watch Fingleton and his siblings at the pool one day, it suddenly transformed from a safe refuge to a place where his father could exercise enormous power over the boys. Seeing success for his sons through swimming, Harold drilled the two boys incessantly, waking them up for practice before dawn, and stoking a fire of competition between his two sons...
...novel carries readers through 1980s London, a period which—for narrator-hero Nick Guest—is cataclysmic on two fronts: first, as a young and privileged Englishman in the dizzying boom-and bust-climate of Thatcherism; second, as a gay man at the dawn of the AIDS crisis. Such high-stakes political, moral, and social issues could easily overpower a less skillful writer, turning the novel into mere sermon or satire. But Hollinghurst and his fictitious alter-ego are far too smart for that.Instead, we meet a brilliant, insecure Oxford grad with an exacting, reverential, and eventually...