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Foreign-adopted kids lose their culture, but they also lose more than that. Culture can be studied—perhaps even learned??but the loss of pride and dignity can never be undone. There is nothing more humiliating than the inability to care for one’s own children. Dignity is the most important virtue for the health of a people with a common identity. Kyle A. de Beausset ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is an environmental science and public policy concentrator in Leverett House...

Author: By Kyle A. De beausset | Title: Adopt a Conscience | 10/31/2006 | See Source »

...paper or project in which students relate an outside activity—course-sponsored or independent—to a class. This sort of formalization is unnecessary. Experiences are important because they can bring course material to life; writing yet another paper about “what I learned?? does not. Turning activities into homework does not make them more instructive. Rather, a formal process will in all likelihood foster a negative attitude in students who feel obliged to participate, and such an attitude would be detrimental to students and to organizations alike.Under some suggested proposals, the projects...

Author: By Melissa Quino mccreery, | Title: A Lesson on Activities | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

...wreak utter havoc. Nanny McPhee then mysteriously shows up at their door and uses her magic to whip the brats into shape. When the children refuse to get up in the morning, claiming they have the measles, Nanny McPhee actually gives the children measles for the day. Lesson learned??with Nanny McPhee, get up or get ill. After each lesson taught, one of Nanny McPhee’s physical flaws disappears. To enlarge the slim plot into a full-length movie, Thompson—who also wrote the script—throws in a half-baked storyline involving...

Author: By Margot E. Edelman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nanny McPhee | 2/3/2006 | See Source »

...know exactly where every part comes in, where the key changes are. It’s amazing that he can know so much about a piece beyond his own particular part,” Miller says. “I don’t think that’s learned??I think it’s unique...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson’s Alternative Honorees for ’05 | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

...decidedly in Brown’s favor. Before that 2-1 overtime loss in January, the Crimson set off on the wrong foot, beginning its season with a 2-0 loss to the Bears at Bright Hockey Center. Harvard discovered that night what the rest of the ECAC soon learned??the Brown Bears, long dependent on the goaltending of Yann Danis, had developed an offense to go alongside its all-world goaltender. Much of that scoring comes from three skilled forwards—Brian Ihnacak, Brent Robinson and Les Haggett—who’ve combined...

Author: By Timothy M. Mcdonald, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Twice Beaten, Not At All Shy | 3/12/2004 | See Source »

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