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...Raas Gujarati dance, which was performed with sticks. Tickets for Ghungroo were in high demand. The Saturday night performance was sold out in less than two days, according to Ghungroo co-producer and SAA co-president Arjun Vasan ’07. “This was the fastest selling Ghungroo ever,” said Ghungroo House Manager Vikas V. Mouli ’09. Some students who hadn’t snapped up tickets quickly enough sent out requests on open-lists, But Mouli and Vasan said that no scalping took place. The SAA had a centralized wait...
...Isles, starvation and forced migration almost halved Ireland's population. In the late 19th century in the U.S., millions lived in squalor, and militias occasionally shot striking workers in labor disputes - it happened as late as 1914, in Ludlow, Colorado. Before the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia had one of the fastest rates of economic growth in Europe, even as peasants starved and an urban proletariat grew up ready to revolt. It's easy to see how, on a three-day trip, India might feel like a nation magically transformed. Bookstores have shelves dedicated to India's new economic might, newspapers review...
...most exciting win of the night was Bassi’s. She dominated the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:58.81, over five seconds faster than the second-place finisher. Her time was good for a meet record and the Ivy League record. It was the 12th fastest time in the event in the country.“I think she was definitely ready to bust out,” Hart said. “We were just so happy for her. She has been 1:59 for some time. So, she was really ready...
...some of the impunity witnessed will never happen again." Githongo's crusade started at a time of great hope. In 2002, Mwai Kibaki, head of the National Rainbow Coalition, won the presidency, promising an end to corruption as "a way of life." Kenya was once one of Africa's fastest growing economies, but misrule and graft had helped lead to poverty and made the country unpopular with donors, who froze hundreds of millions of aid dollars. Outgoing President Daniel arap Moi, whose Kenya African National Union party had ruled the country for four decades, was so unpopular...
...only have one wheel, but he’s kind of a big deal. Not satisfied with his Guinness World Record title as the fastest marathon “joggler” (juggling while running), Zach J. Warren, Harvard Divinity School ’07, is training to shatter two more records: the fastest 100 miles ridden on a unicycle, and the most miles ridden on a unicycle in one hour. Warren began juggling as a means of procrastination while an undergrad at Earlham, a Quaker college in Indiana. Soon enough, he was turning down gigs at the White House...