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Rodolfo N. Cajiri '01, a Bolivian of Japanese, African, Spanish, Native American and Middle Eastern descent, says that people label him as Hispanic despite the many races represented in his background...
...like a fabulous interactive way to share part of the African spirit." Indeed, the gumboot dancers, who meet for two-hour rehearsals every Monday night, reach out to the Harvard community as a whole. Both the troupe of dancers and their audiences include individuals who are not of African descent. Alexander, who is from Zimbabwe, had led the gumboot troupe at her international school before she arrived at Harvard. "After a year without gumboots, I was ready to reimmerse myself in the wonders of the rhythm," she said...
...that the first EgyptAir Flight 990 black box has given us is another piece of the puzzle - but one that rules out rather than provides an easy solution. The NTSB announced Wednesday that analysis of the flight-data recorder reveals that the doomed plane's initial descent was a controlled maneuver by the pilot rather than a precipitous plunge, and that the Boeing 767's thrust reversers had not deployed in mid-flight, ruling out a hypothesis popular in media coverage immediately after the Halloween night crash. The big question, of course, is what prompted the pilot, eight seconds after...
...bottomless dump, there would someday come a moment of no recovery. Overwhelmed at last, the resilient seas would no longer be able to cleanse or restock themselves. From that moment on, the oceans--and with them nearly all life on earth--would embark upon a slow, irreversible descent into the darkness...
...Holocaust. It explores this theme on a personal, individual level--through the character of John Halder (Diego Arciniegas), a humanities professor and a fundamentally good man who ultimately dons an S.S. uniform and heads off for his new position at the Auschwitz death camp. Halder's ascent (or descent) is recounted in a series of disconnected episodes that recall the pivotal moments in his life in the '30s. In the earliest scenes, the audience learns that Halder is a Goethe scholar at the Frankfurt University recruited by the Nazis for a small novel that he publishes on euthanasia, which...