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...stereotype of white male,” says Jessica D. Williams ’08, an African-American who has been in Army ROTC since her freshman fall. These women deal every day with the complexities of their decision. Classmates don’t understand why they joined a “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” institution, or why they’re willing to give up four years of their lives. When the cadets wear their camouflage BDUs around campus, other students ask them why they decided to join ROTC. Often...
...Thomas. “They’re the best singers singing the best songs that the Kroks have had,” he adds. During the second half of the program, in which the current ensemble will perform, 18 Krok alumni from the 1940s and 1950s will join the group on stage for a rendition of the Kroks’ signature song: “Johnny O’Conner.” The program will conclude with “Loch Lomond,” during which all alumni will be invited to the stage for a visual...
...shot into school—this was my ticket.”Similarly, McCrone spent his high school years dedicated to basketball, moving from his hometown of Shanty Bay, Ont. to Baltimore to devote himself to the sport.Harvard coach Frank Sullivan liked what he saw, inviting McCrone to join the basketball team—a squad that the senior was a part of his freshman and sophomore years.TO THE MACWeitzen was the quickest of the three to leave his old team, quitting the football squad before the academic year even started.“I got here and I realized...
...Many people should join hands to solve this problem. That's why the Prime Minister is open to talks with any opposition leader, anyone from the protest movement, so we can come up with a good solution. We admit some things need to be improved. Public participation in the political process could be better. This includes academics, NGOs, local governments. We need to control corruption and improve transparency in the bureaucracy. But if 100,000 protesters can come onto the streets and ask for any government member to resign, next time they'll do it again. Then...
...decades?Sinatra, McCartney, Dylan?eventually seem to inhabit an almost mythical realm of eternal fame in which their ties to the lives of ordinary beings are largely severed. Not B.B. King. Sixty years spent working with something as visceral as the blues has left him with no inclination to join the other immortals on music's Parnassus. Instead, he has chosen to remain right here with us, on the coal face of humanity, mining our rawest emotions to fuel a music that has the power to warm any heart. King's vast corpus of work has never been anything...