Word: freedom
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...Literature concentrator, Kapusta is also one of the few Harvard students participating in Harvard’s joint degree program with the New England Conservatory, which involves a full course of study at Harvard and an additional year at the NEC to complete a Masters degree. It was the freedom of the program, which entails weekly vocal lessons, that allowed Kapusta to pursue other musical interests in his extracurricular activities. “I had played the trumpet in high school and had gotten to play in all-county and all-state one-weekend orchestras, but never got to play...
...selected by prison staff to oversee small groups of prisoners. Several of the deaths have been attributed to beatings at the hands of prisoners acting on orders from other inmates. Because the problems have only been identified at the local level, Chinese media has been given relative freedom to cover abuses, says David Bandurski, a researcher with the China Media Project at Hong Kong University. "These cases of jail deaths are focusing right now on brutal acts carried out by gangs of prisoners," he says. "While the lines of responsibility leading to local police should be clear...
...much-heralded conference made only two concrete recommendations, and both were objectionable. The first recommendation was that all countries ought to afford a right to freedom of opinion and expression to all citizens in order to combat racism. But, without even a hint of irony, the conference also resolved that states should “prohibit all organizations based on ideas or theories of superiority of one race or group of persons of one colour or ethnic origin, or which attempt to justify or promote national, racial, and religious hatred and discrimination in any form.” According...
...book painful to write? Yes, it was painful. But there was freedom in it. Most guys that have written about my life, they never lived through the abuse I had to go through. I just felt it was time to share who I am. I'm free from all that...
...Club Soccer team took home the gold at Saturday’s “Kick Out Malaria Cup,” an event aimed at raising money for mosquito nets for villages in Sierra Leone. The event, organized by the team itself, is a sign of the increased freedom sports teams have as they transform from junior varsity to club-level organizations. Last year, Harvard’s JV Soccer Team, plagued with low participation rates and dwindling competition, disintegrated and the Harvard Club Soccer team emerged in its place. “It was really a shame because...