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Curhan, the director of the Ph.D. program in health policy at the Kennedy School, knows first-hand that special concentrations can have a tremendous impact on a student's life. Her son, Jared Curhan '93, created a special concentration on negotiation and decision-making and went on to found the program for Young Negotiators, a 10-week curriculum that teaches high school teachers how to foster negotiation skills in the classroom...
While he acknowledged that many in the Emerson Hall lecture room had experienced racism first-hand, Dinkins said he could provide special perspective into the ways hate has pervaded society...
...wearing her hair in a ponytail, but I can't be sure). But at least the sheer size of the arena enables people of all crowds--from the teenyboppers to the sensitive adults to the occasional college-aged cynic with a heart of gold--to enjoy her music first-hand, and to be a part of the mystical magic that is Tori Amos, even if for only a little while...
...initial story, CNN also conducted telephone interviews with a former senior military official who would not go on the record but at times seemed to confirm the use of sarin gas. His statements, however, were not based on first-hand knowledge. Since the broadcast and story, this source has stated that he does not believe the gas used was sarin or nerve...
...still remember when I could swim in the ocean. That was before I came to Harvard. I had a lot of free time and much vivid contact with the environment in which I was raised. I could experience first-hand all the pleasures and troubles or urban life--the accessibility, the rush, the violence. The vastness of the sea and the threat of the city were both an exciting challenge and a fearful perturbation. Life was uncertain...