Word: friendship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like many close friends, Peter A. Meyerdirk '00 and Kellon Daytes play football and go to movies together. But Meyerdirk and Daytes, a mentally retarded student at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, owe their unlikely friendship to an international program called Best Buddies...
...Best Buddies program pairs college students with mentally retarded children and adults. On Saturday, Meyerdirk and Daytes celebrated their friendship along with more than two hundred buddies from the Boston area, as Harvard's chapter of Best Buddies hosted the first-ever Buddy Rama...
...principal, and eerie, pleasure of McEwan's telegraphically terse novel is how quickly the agreement between Linley and Halliday turns murderous. For the aftermath of Molly Lane's death inexorably destroys an enduring friendship. Halliday is offered photographs that Molly had taken of Foreign Secretary Garmony in transvestite regalia. The editor feels he must publish them, both to keep his failing paper alive and to save Britain from a reactionary politician who may become Prime Minister. Linley disagrees, telling Halliday that publication of Molly's photographs, obviously private and taken in mutual trust, would be a betrayal...
...would go so far as to argue that men were programmed to be isolated from one another and that aloneness is our natural state. Silence in male friendships is our way of being alone with each other. Once men have established a friendship, that itself is the word. The affection is obvious, at least to us. A main component of our silence is an appreciation of the obvious...
Brauwerman agreed. "Harvard is definitely aplace where there's a lot more awareness andtolerance and friendship among people of differentfaiths," he said...