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...about giving Harvard a carillon for a while. The last offer Harvard received was from a Groton graduate who insisted that two students from Groton be admitted each year in order to care for, and play, the bells. While this alumnus’ idea of preferential treatment is not ideal, having students play the bells most definitely is. At Yale, the Student Carillon Guild offers instruction and recitals, providing an education while creating beautiful music. Learning how to play the bells at my high school was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life; many would find the same...
While Richey acknowledged that the mid-year distribution is not ideal, she said she, guide Editor Peggy Lim ’01 and Director of the Ann Radcliffe Trust Karen E. Avery ’87 decided to go ahead with distribution rather than waiting any longer...
...brother Suleman, 7, were sold by their father for the sporting fun of a wealthy Gulf sheik. An agent who scours the poor villages and nomad camps of southern Pakistan bought the diminutive brothers to race camels in the United Arab Emirates. They fit the agents' ideal: aged between five and eight and weighing less than 17 kilos apiece...
...many are in forced labor like Andy, sold by their parents for weeks or years to agents who promise salaries that turn out to be inflated, are whittled away by fictitious expenses or are nonexistent. But for mind-numbing work like netting fish on a jermal, children are the ideal employees - cheap, docile and easily cowed. "They said I could go home after three months," Andy recalls, clutching his right hand still swollen from a sea snake bite. "But there was no replacement so they said I had to stay...
...What's ironic about all this is that the Mormons, by preserving in its purest form the Greco-Roman worship of the body, have in some ways outstripped the Olympic athletes themselves. Good health is no longer, and hasn't been for some time now, an Olympic ideal. Performance trumps all. Between their indulgence in harrowing training regimens that warp young athletes' sexual development and the widespread use of drugs and supplements meant to induce short bursts of speed and power, a lot of today's would-be medallists might be regarded, in Mormon terms, as defiled and deficient...