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...Director of the Caribbean Club Dance Troupe, as well as the President of the Caribbean Club. “I first attempted reggae and hip-hop at Harvard and I found I was really good at it,” she says without bragging, recalling the joy of discovering her talent. Reggae and hip hop gradually consumed her life, and she soon found herself a different person. “My first dancing experience in front of a crowd was at Harvard,” she says. “I used to be a shy, introverted person...
...concert featured Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and the holiday season-appropriate themes of peace and joy dominated the program. Though two of the first three pieces could have stood by themselves, the audience waited with bated breath in anticipation of Beethoven’s masterpiece, and consequently the opening three pieces seemed like an overture...
...sound of the orchestra and chorus resonated deep within the wood paneled walls and surrounded the audience with Beethoven’s musical interpretation of the famed “Ode to Joy” poem by Friedrich Schiller, whose message of universal brotherhood under the wings of joy regardless of race, religion or political standing is as relevant today as it was in Beethoven’s time...
...Fish from Drowning, the latest and most radically un-Tanlike of Tan's novels. Instead of examining personal relationships, this time she takes on two of the more pressing moral issues of the age: how to do good in the world and whether it matters. Her previous novels - The Joy Luck Club (she also co-wrote director Wayne Wang's 1993 movie version), The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses and The Bonesetter's Daughter - were all best sellers focusing on the bond between mothers and daughters, the latter often Chinese-American like Tan. Uncharacteristically, Saving Fish...
...took my first bio class junior year, and I remember I was reading about photosynthesis and they asked me to leave the Science Center library for making too much noise. I felt like a blind person who had finally come to see, and I screamed with joy when I [found out] how this all works. If you have the right teacher, every day is a revelation...