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...build his project from the bottom up. Chan taught classes at local universities and set up art workshops with New Orleans high school students. He even arranged potluck dinners for people in the neighborhoods where he would later stage the play. These dinners allowed Chan and his collaborators to discuss specifics of the performance, such as setting and themes, with his future audience. “This is how we got all our ideas,” he said. Chan described his networking through humorous portraits of the community members who helped him in his project. “Neighborhood...
Twenty people gathered last night to discuss an unusual topic on the Harvard campus: sex workers on film. Ummni Khan, a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School, led a clip screening and discussion on the roles and portrayals of sex workers in contemporary film at the Harvard College Women’s Center last night. Khan’s chosen clips—from mainstream films such as “9 1/2 Weeks,” “Pretty Woman,” “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo,” “Monster...
About 550 Tibetan political leaders and activists have come from as far away as Canada, Australia and Brussels to discuss the future of the Tibetan movement. Its spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has long advocated a democratic decision-making process, but Tibetans' reverence for him has inhibited many of them from speaking out in any way that might challenge his authority. "This is the problem with having God as your leader," says Tsering Shakya, a professor of modern Tibetan history at the University of British Columbia. A referendum in the early 1990s on whether to give the Dalai Lama...
...began my own campaign for U.S. president at the tender age of nine, when I ran for class representative of the fourth grade at Adler Park Elementary School. Winning would propel me onto the student council, the venerable body that met once a month to discuss the important issues—the rising prices of chocolate milk, the construction of a new swing set and the planning of the Adler family carnival. But I was at a steep disadvantage. There were only two black kids in my entire elementary school—me and my little brother?...
...vacillates between alarming and reassuring the reader. Is she hiding something? 2. Who is this “Allston,” and why do We address her so briefly? 3. If Harvard lost half of its Endowment, it would still be roughly equal to the GDP of Ghana. Discuss...