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...matter how easy it seems to live and love on a day-to-day basis, we live in a place that sometimes values the distant future over the joys of the present. Harvard is built around the idea that human pyramids and laughter and conversation are all things that should come second to grades and careers. But in the face of inevitable death, human pyramids are a thing of paramount importance. In all their precariousness and closeness, in all the effort they take and the time they waste, they are really all that is wonderful in this world...
...said Colin T. Flood ’09, a member of the House Planning Program Committee and one of the students on the trip, “it was personally beneficial. When you get an opportunity to step back from the day-to-day and look at what the overall picture at the other places is, it really helps you see what the value is in this Harvard experience.” —Staff writer Charles J. Wells can be reached at wells2@fas.harvard.edu...
...Shi’s heartbreaking vulnerability and fragility. In one scene, Mr. Shi, shirtless and frail, methodically straps a harness onto his back,and slowly pulls the cords to help him keep his curved, osteoporotic spine a little straighter. Most of these scenes are just short flashes of his day-to-day routines, but their telling nature makes the slow, drawn-out dinner conversations between father and daughter bearable. Wang’s film is neither extraordinary nor groundbreaking, but it certainly is enjoyable. Both Mr. Wang and Mr. Shi have tried to demonstrate the need for talking...
...there's nothing he can do to keep the lights on. The mall's operators had been paying day-to-day expenses with financing obtained through a subsidiary of Lehman Brothers, the now defunct American investment bank. After Lehman's dramatic collapse in mid-September, the mall lost its funding source, couldn't pay operating expenses and was forced to liquidate. Tenants must be out within days. They have been told they will not be getting their deposits back. Kamoshida can't get over the feeling of being utterly blindsided. "I had no idea that Lehman Brothers...
...many citizens, voting day is a day like any other—filled with the unavoidable responsibilities of work, kids, and day-to-day household chores. While the need to accomplish such quotidian tasks should not overshadow the importance of voting, the cumbersome obligations of a workday too often deter voters and diminish the vibrancy of our democracy...