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...novel The Crazed ends amid the aftermath of the bloody Tiananmen massacre of June 1989. Jian Wan, the longhaired grad student and narrator, has been in Beijing and has seen the monstrous crackdown firsthand. Back in his staid university town, he is tipped off that the police are coming to arrest him as a counterrevolutionary. He flees, hawking his Phoenix bike to a fruit vendor for some apricots and enough change to buy a train ticket to Nanjing. From there, Jian plans to board an express train heading south to Guangzhou, then sneak into Hong Kong and eventually make...
...would never know how good it is. You wouldn't know it like I do. I've never been on ketamine, so I know it only as well as a reader would know my wife's cake - secondhand. I wondered how could I warn Sasha about this drug. Without firsthand experience, could I still reason effectively with him about it? I wondered if there was anyone who could, who could say something like "Look here, son, when I was in fourth grade, reading Crime and Punishment and doing analytic geometry, I tried getting high on ketamine and it seemed great...
...Dramatic Arts 25: The Artist Revealed: Martha Graham’s Work and Creative Process,” one of Harvard’s first for-credit dance classes. A former principal dancer and artistic director of the Martha Graham Dance Company, Dakin brings to the classroom firsthand experience with the iconic modern dancer, to whom she refers with personal familiarity and deep respect. It is also not difficult to see why Harvard might have chosen Graham’s work as an initial bridge between academia and dance. “There’s an intellectual...
Matt and Randall have seen firsthand the issues and challenges that face students and student groups. With their impressive record of calling for and carrying out reforms, they are the ideal duo to lead the UC. We are proud to call Matt and Randall our friends, and sincerely hope to call them the President and Vice-President of the Undergraduate Council next year...
Along with relief, I now had another "D," Diabetes, to add to my non-healing mnemonic. Am I older but wiser? Hardly. To say we understand the healing miracle, even having read the great scientists who've spent their lives learning about it, even having studied it firsthand, is to say we haven't really thought about...