Word: hooping
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Expository writing at Harvard is broken. For many years, class after class of disgruntled students who have been forced to jump through the hoop that is Harvard’s mandatory freshman writing course have come to this conclusion. This week, a Crimson investigation revealed that students are not alone; many systemic problems are festering within the Expository Writing program, from dissatisfaction amongst preceptors to a lack of interest on the part of faculty and administrators to a dearth of funding.These problems are too large for quick fixes and stopgap measures. Instead of pursuing reforms such as changing the program?...
...Sharpay is not really that bad; she just wants too much. Nobody is that bad in this world--not the popular kids, not the ditzy parents, not the overworked authority figures--and that's its charm. Everyone--band geek, hoop star, rich kid--stands side by side for their curtain call. Whether high school is in front of you or long behind, who wouldn't want to believe that story...
...friends out on a friday evening, the seafood plentiful, the conversation flowing. Maria Zhang - big hoop earrings, tight velvet jacket and a good deal of meticulously applied makeup - starts to describe an island that everyone is talking about off the east coast of Thailand. It has great diving, she says, and lots of Chinese there so you don't have to worry about language. Her friend Vicky Yang is hunched over a borrowed laptop, downloading an e-mail from a pesky client on her cell phone. An actuary at a consulting firm, Vicky needs to close a project tonight. While...
...Roger co-wrote in his 20s. As the go-to movie savant, he's been on hundreds of TV shows, sometimes alone, sometimes with his review-show partners; who can forget that night in the '80s when David Letterman persuaded Roger and Gene to toss basketballs at a makeshift hoop? And there've been countless speaking engagements, most of them to proselytize for the art and pleasure of movies. At some of these events he leads an in-depth discussion of some classic film - Citizen Kane, Vertigo, The Third Man and most recently In Cold Blood - stopping the action...
...Cabot House students who e-mailed their suspicions to each other, 60 black Crimson editors, Institute of Politics members, Hoopes Prize winners, and Harvard insignia-wearing dormmates playing hula-hoop and capture-the-flag looked like an invasion of gang-bangers. One black male professor also reported that he has been asked for identification so often that he would hardly have thought to mention it, though it does make him feel that he does not belong. He summarizes the attitude of many whites as follows: “When you are an unfamiliar black man, you are by definition...