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...numbers) resolve to leave the land their ancestors have farmed for a thousand years and go to America. Despite Kristina's severe reservations, that's what they do, accompanied by Ulrika (Louise Pitre, the original Broadway mother in Mamma Mia!), the town whore who becomes Kristina's closest friend. In Minnesota, life is nearly as harsh; the characters are still buffeted and bullied by fate. Essentially stoic, passive characters, Kristina and the others triumph by surviving - by outliving their plagues and tribulations - until they don't. Endurance is heroism...
...most recently, Princeton's Eliot Ramsay Kalmbach ’09-’10, 24, died Tuesday afternoon after falling from a mountain in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. He was going on a cross-country trip with a friend before starting a technology internship this fall. According to his sister, Kalmbach was planning to finish his graduation requirements in the spring. Some online commenters have written that Princeton should give him a diploma post mortem in his honor...
...candidates to fill Edward M. Kennedy’s ’54-’56 Senate seat in media reports, even as speculation swirled late last night that Mass. Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 would instead pick Paul G. Kirk Jr. '60, a longtime friend of Kennedy’s, as a stand-in for the late liberal senator...
Last weekend I made a trip that I had been putting off for months. My good friend at UMass Amherst often encourages me to escape the Cambridge bubble and journey across the state to spend a weekend at his frat, but I just as often decline, terrified that a few days away from Harvard spells a death sentence for schoolwork. This time, though, I was out of excuses...
Khazei called the Senator “an extraordinary mentor and a great friend,” and said it was Kennedy’s example that first made him consider entering politics. Nafees A. Syed ’10, who served as one of Khazei’s liaisons during his fellowship, said she was happy to learn that he would be seeking the Senate seat...