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...Harvard continues its tradition as a leading institution of higher education because of its human resources. Though Harvard will never be able to establish the close-knit community of a small liberal arts college like Williams, it can make faculty openness to student interaction a higher priority. Biannual arranged dinners should not be the climax of student-faculty interaction for those who would appreciate more...
Johnson is a writer of some success—his pseudo-novel Jesus’ Son, comprised of close-knit stories, was recently filmed. In addition to novels and stories, Johnson also writes poetry, and from reading Seek you’d know it. His sparkling prose is simultaneously laconic and melancholy, marked by a sense of inner wonder as he travels around and talks, thinks and sometimes writes about it. He marvelously describes scenes and contrasts them with what their inhabitants are up to. “West Africa,” he writes...
...kreung crowd tend to hang tight, dining, drinking and dating together. "We understand each other," says Nicole Terio, one of the group. "It comes from knowing what it means to grow up between two cultures." But the luk kreung's close-knit community and Western-stoked confidence sometimes elicits grumbles from other Thais, who also resent their stranglehold on the entertainment industry. The ultimate blow came a few years back when Thailand sent a blue-eyed woman to the Miss World competition. Sirinya Winsiri, also known as Cynthia Carmen Burbridge, beat out another half-Thai, half-American for the coveted...
This image is reproduced again in the work “Witness.” In these large paintings the scene is anachronistic, as Isis is dressed in the fashions of the ancient world, while spectators of her actions are dressed in jeans and cable knit sweaters. The onlookers appear slightly altered in both works, as does a large wolf-like dog. The presence of the animal could be a reference to Anubis, the jackal-headed son of Osiris and his other sister Nefis. The concept of the re-membering having taken place in modern time also reappears...
Senior ace Chelsea Thoke and tri-captains Jen Vogt-Lowell and Mairead McKendry guide the close-knit team both on and off the diamond...