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...tradition of rowing at Yale.” For five years, Stevens served as the girls’ varsity coach and program director of Wayland Weston Rowing Association, a non–profit organization dedicated to teaching young people how to row. Under Stevens, what began as a learn-to-row program became a high school powerhouse, as the coach led his crews to four silver medals at nationals in 2007.“Stevens seems like a great guy who has done so much, so I’m excited,” Mazjoub says.And Stevens has already begun...
...real information for real people” and to encourage young Americans to participate in the democratic process. Launched on Sunday, the site has been tipped for success by 2004 election bloggers. “We want to encourage all people, especially Americans under 30, to learn about the issues, to get involved in the election, and to ultimately vote,” said the site’s founder William M. Ruben ’10. VoteGopher strives to present election information without engaging in political mudslinging. Its contributors, all of whom have taken non-partisan oaths, summarize...
...would add a course that I would teach, called “How to give me $100,000,” wherein each student would learn how to deposit $100,000 into my personal account. This course will prepare young undergrads for a long career of giving me money throughout their futures. Space is limited to 40 million students. Extra credit can be obtained by giving me $200,000 and some ice cream. I will offer a second year course called “How to blow people...
...Girl.” While Marilyn is probably the original Bad Girl, the novel’s titular bad girl is no less a seductress, adventure-seeker, or opportunist than the actress was thought to be, although hers is a less intriguing and iconic story. Otilita—we learn this is her given name only in the last fifty pages of the book—first appears as Lily, an exotic Chilean schoolgirl who captures the hearts of her upper-class Peruvian classmates, including the protagonist Ricardo, who is known throughout the book as “good...
...events such as Hurricane Katrina and the horrors of Guantánamo. Pinksy adopts a personal tone, asking, “What could your children boast about you?” He then turns to the tendency of history to repeat itself despite man’s pledges to learn from past mistakes. The poems in the second section become extended definitions of everyday objects. Pinsky argues that every word “is an assembly of countless voices,” and here, each poem expands the significance of otherwise mundane things. In the final third of the book...