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Harvard is a unique place. We are nourished for four years in a cushioned environment, an environment that cannot be replicated in the outside world. The cuddling allows us to develop an open mind and a scrutinizing eye, preparing us to deal with the challenges ahead. But if you don't stop to appreciate the opportunities here, the time is wasted. Ask any Harvard student and he or she will tell you your time here is full of milestones. Significantly fewer undergraduates, however, realize what a fertile ground Harvard can provide for reflecting on such moments...
...week. Despite the release last week of fresh reports chronicling persistent low unemployment and rising orders for factory goods, anxiety spread from the stock market to the "real" economy of jobs and paychecks. The market drop served as a reminder--one about as subtle as a poke in the eye--that in today's global economy, not even a healthy U.S. can quarantine its factories and offices and markets from the illnesses of countries halfway around the world. It vividly showed Americans how the turmoil in Asia and Latin America is slashing the profits of U.S. corporations, which might...
...help for him," sighs Mary. Brian is mired in the middle, and even his teachers admit that's a bad place to be. "The high end and the low end of the class can take up all your energies," says Lori Milligan, his seventh-grade science teacher. Casting an eye toward Brian, she adds, "Then there are the rest--the quiet kids who aren't disruptive, who don't need your undivided attention. Where do they...
...considerable talents were widely held to exclude singing, will be released in November. Before she died earlier this year, McCartney made an album of songs she had recorded over the past 20 years. The album, Wide Prairie, could be joined in the Relatives rack by recent releases from Eagle-Eye Cherry, son of Don, brother of Neneh; Adam Cohen, son of Leonard; Bijou Phillips, daughter of Mamas & Papas John Phillips, and an upcoming one from Sally Taylor, daughter of James Taylor and Carly Simon. Hmmm: Can Lourdes Ciccone hold a microphone...
Though Breath, Eyes, Memory caught Oprah's eye, Danticat's The Farming of Bones is a richer, more resonant work. There is magic and loss on nearly every page. At one point in the novel, a man who has been struck by a machete and left for dead in a pile of corpses tells his story. "'I felt like my woman on our first night together,' he said. 'She woke up in the middle of the night and started screaming...this was her first night outside her mother's bed and she'd plain forgotten where she was... Waking...