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...know the rest, you’d have to have seen firsthand how Merchant selflessly toiled as the Crimson’s sixth man for the first three years of his career. Ironically, he was a starter in the first few games of his rookie campaign, but after an ankle injury, he was relegated to coming off the bench. Earlier this season, he said that, looking back, he probably didn’t appreciate his starting role as much as he should have at the time. Maybe he’s right. Or maybe he knew exactly what...
...spent last fall in Madrid and discovered firsthand the many benefits of study abroad. My Spanish reached a level of fluency it simply could not have in a Harvard classroom (the value of which Podolsky, a Classics concentrator, might not immediately realize), I saw a different slant on world events and I lived and studied with people very different from those I know in this country. Stepping outside the bubble of Harvard (and of the U.S) for a short while was an invaluable experience which has immeasurably enriched my experience at this distinguished institution...
...measures to make it easier for students to study abroad are often couched in terms of the intrinsic benefit of experiencing a foreign culture firsthand, the increasingly globalized nature of the world community and any number of other empty shibboleths and platitudes. The timing and abruptness of the shift, though, indicate that there may be some less-than-principled practical considerations that have also played a large, if not a decisive, role in the new policies...
Anna Sangermano knows from firsthand experience what such programs can do. Now 40, she says she began drinking and doing drugs at 13, dropped out of her Marin County, Calif., high school in the 11th grade and began living on the streets at 20. She smoked so much methamphetamine that her teeth rotted. The county took away two of her sons and placed them in foster care. Finally, in 1999 Sangermano entered drug treatment and then the home of Joyce and George Parker. During her nine months with the Parkers, she got her driver's license, her GED and dentures...
...went there to study at the Academy of Music, and that Brahms concert was on one of my first days there. After I enrolled in school, I started going to rehearsals of the Vienna Philharmonic. I learned by looking at the great conductors firsthand and by studying at the academy with one of the great teachers of the 20th century, Hans Swarowsky. The Vienna Philharmonic opened my ears and Swarowsky opened my mind to the treasures of the Viennese classics. To this day, the huge musical arc that starts with Haydn and goes to Webern constitutes 80% of my repertoire...