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...Harris says. “You have to make the conceit that he reads lips.”But lip-reading or not, Harris still committed himself to accurately representing what it’s like to be a deaf person. For inspiration, he turned to his own deaf father, “who can’t hear a lick,” Harris says.On the set, he went even further. “I really did pretty much plug up my ears,” he recalls. “So I really had to pay attention...
...Harvard Global Negotiation Project (GNP), concluded a two-week tour of some of the Middle East’s most ancient and holy sites. The tour participants were looking to advance plans for a path by which future tourists might follow the footsteps of Abraham—the father of monotheism who is claimed as an ancestor by Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Baha’i.The Abraham Path would begin in Harran, Turkey—which many Biblical scholars believe to be the location where Abraham first heard the call to “go forth from your country...
...want to leave—I had been [in Seattle for] seven years,” Kacyvenski says. “[Seahawks coach] Mike Holmgren gave me a shot, and it’s always been my hope and dream. He’s been like a father figure...
...It’s not his first time getting adjusted to new surroundings. Calling Kacyvenski’s upbringing difficult is more than an understatement—his mother died before he finished high school and his father was an abusive, though now reformed, alcoholic—and he didn’t exactly grow up expecting to become his college football program’s all-time leading tackler, let alone a Harvard graduate...
...Final Club wished to send one lucky punch a message; “gird your loins,” it said, for the best time you’ll ever have. The problem? They sent it to his father, the dean of Harvard Business School...