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...Harvard students, we should welcome Summers into our community and send him the message that we want to work together to make Harvard a better place, just as The Crimson did in its staff editorial ("Welcome, Summers," March 12). To greet him with an obnoxious protest for the sake of publicity is petty and confrontational. I challenge the PSLM in the future to accomplish their goal with the same degree of dignity and respect they claim to extend to Harvard's workers...
...John Morris, chief operating officer of Europe Online, which is producing Now or Never, says that in the near future an avatar - a character that exists only in cyberspace - will greet us when we turn on our televisions. "Good evening, you have five e-mail messages waiting. Would you like to read them now? While you were at work today I downloaded some of your favorite music from the Internet. Would you prefer to listen to that or look over the selection of broadcast TV shows and movies that I saved...
...Karamajong tribe, whose members usually go around naked, two weeks ago dressed up to greet President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, who had come to town on a campaign swing. Young women in red-checked wrap skirts with layered necklaces of bright beads sang him a welcome song as they jumped straight up in the air. Male dancers wore animal skins and crowned their heads with gracefully curved, white ostrich feathers. All greeted Museveni with a two-word English slogan, in fact, the only words in English they know, "No change! No change...
...Mexican political figure and you've nearly filled Mexico City's mammoth central plaza, you've done a good day's work. The mostly young crowd that gathered on the Zocalo to greet Subcomandante Marcos and his fellow Zapatista Army commanders on Sunday took up a good 85 percent of the plaza. Crowd estimates were wildly inconsistent, but the order of magnitude is tens of thousands of people...
...children with Down syndrome. Marlene Mikell, who teaches severely disabled children at a Chicago public school, asserts that yoga improves the self-esteem of her students. "There is no competition, no perfection, just total self-expression," she says. "The children can be an eagle or a mountain or greet the sun." Kemesha Adkins, a sophomore at a public school for high-risk kids in West Hollywood, fell behind in her grades after leaving her troubled home for foster care; she found yoga helped her cope. "I can let out all my anger through the different poses," she says. "Yesterday...