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Most of us can recall years when we thought we were too hip for the holidays. It starts with that downward look I see on my face in the photograph. But if life and years peel things away, they can also return to us the things we have shunned--the willingness to believe in things we can feel but cannot see. When I was very young, I used to sit in the living room as Christmas night came to an end, looking at the tree, the lights, the mess of toys and wrappings, and I would feel a sadness drift...
Jerry McNamara sits on a ledge set into the platform wall, an accordion resting on his lap and a gray tweed hat hiding his downward-cast eyes from the pedestrian traffic. His fingers fly over the keys of his instrument as he embellishes a medley of holiday carols, tapping his foot beside a case scattered with coins and bills...
...never really understood the downward dog,” Mujalli strokes his chin as he contemplates the basic yoga position...
...Harvard itself has brought down the self-help expectation twice since the 1998-99 academic year. This has dropped the average graduating debt of each class significantly: in 2000, the average senior left Harvard $15,000 in debt; in 2003, the number was $8,800. And Donahue expects the downward trend to continue with this year’s graduating class...
...prod our collective conscience and embody our idealism at its rawest and purest. Many of your parents belong to the generation that helped to lead the civil rights movement when they were no older than you are now. Two decades later, in 1992, young people reversed a 20-year downward trend in their age group’s voter turnout, successfully paving the way for eight years of promise and prosperity...