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...didn’t matter that Melinda is two years older—Casey N. Cep ’07 is not one to put a ceiling on her ambitions. She was recently named a Rhodes Scholar, an honor she refers to as “a grant to read over the summer.” But before she transplants herself to Oxford University, where she will “read” theology, she will have to finish her senior thesis for the English and American Literature and Language department. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
Being named one of FM’s Most Interesting Seniors can’t be too much of an honor for someone who already holds two Olympic medals. Forward/defenseman and two-time Olympian Julie W. Chu ’06-’07 is co-captain of the Harvard women’s ice hockey team. In the middle of her final season, she ranks a close sixth on Harvard’s career scoring chart, and she has competed on the U.S. national ice hockey team since 2000, according to gocrimson.com. Chu brought home a silver medal...
...honor of the recent election, we would like to suggest a few “action plans” to fix this problem...
...Thailand you have three chances to ring in the New Year. On Dec. 31, western New Year's Eve is celebrated with parties, concerts and fireworks. A few weeks later the country stages massive celebrations in honor of Chinese New Year. Finally, on April 13 Thailand celebrates the first day of the traditional Thai calendar with Songkran, a three-day festival marked by parades, feasts and a water-throwing free-for-all in which people roam the streets with squirt guns, bowls of water and garden hoses, drenching passersby--and themselves--in the process. The water represents purification...
...only to Carnaval. Extravagant beachfront celebrations unfold along Copacabana, attracting some 2 million revelers clad in white (to bring good luck and peace in the coming year). Live music ranging from samba to rock blasts from four stages along the beach. New Year's is also a day to honor Iemanj--goddess of the sea and mother of the waters--with ritualistic offerings stowed in small wooden boats and launched in the surf. Tradition holds that if the goddess is pleased with a boat's offerings (usually perfume, white flowers or trinkets), she will carry the boat...