Word: imprints
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Looking for a way to make an imprint on Harvard? Sure, marking your territory on the John Harvard Statue has its appeal, but your hard work is gone with the sweaty hands of tomorrow’s unsuspecting tourists. However, Keller C. Rinaudo ’09 is making his mark in a more permanent way—building a rock-climbing wall in a squash court in the basement of Lowell House. After climbing MIT’s bouldering wall last year, Rinaudo approached the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Lowell with a plan, got approval, raised...
Like every other kind of media, publishing is faddish. The rapper 50 Cent recently started an imprint. Vibe magazine, in conjunction with Kensington Publishing, followed suit. The expansion has left some of its authors ambivalent. "In the beginning it was about a need to express ourselves on a greater plane," says K'wan. "But now it's such a money thing. It affects how the genre is perceived by the public, and it affects authors coming in. They look at this like it's Hollywood. They don't understand that to endure this game, you have to love this game...
...point—Pinchot believed that sustainable development was possible, but Muir rejected the idea out of hand. Nevertheless, both men continued to oppose the wanton exploitation of natural resources, including strip mining and clear-cutting of forests. Though Pinchot and his supporters won the debate and left an imprint on American environmental policy that has lasted decades, the pendulum has lately swung too far—under President Bush, the Interior Department, which controls a full fifth of the nation’s land, has allowed unjustifiable exploitation of the territory in its trust. Instead of balancing the needs...
...From A Home in the Field by Paul Cuadros. Copyright 2006 Paul Cuadros. To be published by Rayo, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers...
...story is a deeply personal one. Cuadros himself helped to found and coached the team, taking a bunch of young street footballers from Jordan-Matthewes High School in Siler City, North Carolina, through triumphs and defeats to come in reach of a state championship. Published by Rayo, an imprint of HarperCollins, the book will be in stores after Labor Day. An excerpt...