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That never sat right with Alvarado. A native Honduran, she graduated with degrees in primary school education and nursing, then traveled to the U.S. to earn her master's in nutrition at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. All this made her uniquely qualified to tackle the dearth of nutrition education in her home country--something she got a chance...
...virtuoso skill of piano soloist Wei-Jen Yuan ’06, before finally allowing the orchestra to come into their own. Under the direction of Dr. James Yannatos, the HRO passionately performed popular but stylistically diverse orchestra favorites, including Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait,” Tchaikovsky’s “Piano Concerto No. 1,” and Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring...
Lead by co-concertmasters J.Y. “Ariel” Jeong ’07 and Mathew J. Kan ’07, the HRO began the night with the solemn opening tones of the patriotic Lincoln Portrait. Copland’s music, which incorporates motifs from American folk songs and the spoken words of Abraham Lincoln, was narrated by Dean Gross, a former HRO member...
...DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN Author, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln He should force his handlers to let him break out from those scripted meetings with the public and really start talking to people. He has to get out of the White House. He has to sit down and figure out what he can accomplish. There's still leverage in the presidency. He had a reputation in Texas as someone who reached across the political lines, and that hasn't been in evidence through much of his presidency. The most important thing for him is to acknowledge that...
...children are just starting to poke their heads into the worlds of parenting and marketing-executive-decision-making. And if fashions come back every twenty years, surely so could playthings. But the ’80s toy appeal seems to extend beyond this—my Lincoln Logs may have been born of an earlier time but they had evolved all along, not suddenly reappearing after a 20 year hiatus. Maybe we were all being duped by the marketing geniuses who realized that our consumer generation would more easily take the bait on buying back our youth. But if this...