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...There’s a generational divide. The people I am closest to in New York are the artists I know from Harvard. But in terms of alumni beyond my years, I would say I run into them very rarely,” Mangu-Ward says.The close-knit theater communities that were created and maintained at Harvard have found themselves displaced in New York. Skeist explains, “There’s a number of people from my class and from other classes who I knew while I was at Harvard who remain a core community...
...opposed to the average 24—and Gross has said that the dorm lacks the size to house the “critical mass” of students necessary to make effective freshman living space. Yet Mass. Hall has traditionally been host to a famously tight-knit dorm community. The College has yet to articulate a good reason to evict freshmen from the top floors. Formal plans for the use of the space next year remain foggy, and Gross has said that it might still be used for emergency or upperclassmen overflow housing. Others speculate that it might...
...tight-knit structure of these groups doesn’t necessarily mean that students involved don’t interact with non-members. “It’s a lot easier to talk with people who can relate to your type of experience. That’s a way of dealing with it, but also a way of moving beyond it,” says Charles J. Hamilton III ’07, the president of the Black Men’s Forum...
...Easier Travel The Oresund Bridge between Copenhagen and Malmö; the Channel Tunnel; high-speed rail links snaking out from France - all have done their bit to knit the Continent closer together than ever before. But perhaps above all it is the growth of budget airlines - stimulated by regulations that came into force in 1997, allowing an airline from one member state to operate a route in another - that has made easy travel around Europe available...
...multiple stress fractures derailed her career at a young age. After hearing about fencing from several fellow gymnasts, Podolsky decided to give it a shot. The three women have since been brought together by Brand’s recruiting and now find themselves a part of a closely knit team that they say provides them support in training and beyond. It also doesn’t hurt that the three members of the class of 2010 knew each other before arriving on campus. Years of competing against one another in junior national competition provided a solid base for a friendship...