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While junior Becky Christensen was busy last week getting old injuries examined, the Penn Relays were the farthest thing from her mind. But when doctors said her foot was cleared for jumping, she decided at the last minute to head off to Pennsylvania to compete with some of the best high jumpers in the country. It was a decision which ultimately reaped great rewards. Christensen, an All-American, became just the third Harvard female to win at the Penn Relays. She brought home the high jumping gold, clearing a height of 179 cm, by out-jumping athletes who had podium...
...convention center, multi-million-dollar mansions in neighborhoods like Kenwood, where Obama lives, as well as boarded-up flop-houses in neighborhoods like Englewood. Among Trinity's members are doctors, architects, prominent journalists, as well as teachers, firemen and garbage collectors. Many residents of the South Side?s farthest edges travel to jobs two hours away via public transport: a bus and a train transfer, often through Hyde Park, the leafy, upscale neighborhood best known because of its proximity to the University of Chicago. In recent years, parts of the South Side have experienced the arrival of gleaming condominiums...
...gifted at hysterical laughter, a talent appreciated by her bored and entertainment-seeking classmates. In an attempt to retain this fading popularity, she laughs herself to death in front of the narrator’s eyes, “inviting [him] to follow her to the farthest and most questionable regions of laughter, where laughter no longer bore any relation to earthly things and, sufficient to itself, soared above the world to flourish in the void.” Millhauser’s accuracy with words paints a picture that strives to come alive.Steeped though he may be in influences...
Should Harvard, then, simply dissolve the IOP? Hardly. The IOP’s component groups—especially those farthest from its administrative core—produce meaningful work, especially when engaged on the streets and in communities. And the fiscal and networking apparatus of the IOP’s adults serves a function in helping independently motivated students with its grant-writing and publishing programs...
...This is the farthest thing from a college atmosphere that I think is possible There’s really not a college life per se,” he said...