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BOSTON—Miss America and future Harvard Law School student Erika Harold teamed up with Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino yesterday to celebrate two events aimed at preventing youth violence...
...mark the event, Menino and Harold spoke to a star-struck group of Mission Hill schoolchildren about ways to prevent violence in their communities...
...from day one. Thus Harvard, in accepting such a student, might have to consider that he spent more time practicing the flute, than, perhaps, studying for the SATs—and this fact does not make the flutist a weaker candidate. If, as Princeton’s former President Harold Shapiro said, admissions are at least partly based on “demonstrated leadership, hard work, initiative and commitment,” then there is no reason that athletics should not be considered a strong component to an application. If not, then similar dedication to activities outside the academic realm?...
Whence the inspiration? It shouldn’t be hard to find, with life as rich and complex as it is. Contrary to what Harold Bloom has called “anxiety of influence,” Heaney proposes instead the “buoyancy of influence”: the dynamism of an old poem, with its wealth of experience, should offer something to get the young poet going...
...Friends, family, acquaintances, casual acquaintances, really distant family members, people who sat next to him in lecture once—basically anyone who has ever met Harold B. Mackey ’03—were shocked and appalled to find out that he has started spending Wednesday afternoons tutoring at-risk youths at a local junior high school. According to blockmates and police, Mackey’s only previously expressed public-service goal was “throwing a goddamn flaming brick through the window of the Fly?...