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...effort to attract applicants. “We wanted to celebrate a summer of service for the CPIC interns and also spread the word about CPIC,” said Travis A. Lovett, the group’s assistant coordinator. About 40 students mingled in a dimly lit room at John Harvard’s Brew House on Dunster Street, feasting on chicken fingers, colorful tortilla chips, and raw vegetables with dip. Lovett said face-to-face outreach like this would help spread the word about CPIC. Out of the 127 students who applied for public work opportunities through...
Regardless, the book accomplishes what it sets out to do: Savan aims squarely to be pop lit and hits a bullseye...
...Santo Domingo, a plaza that has been taken over by protesters, three haunting "ofrendas" were lit the previous evening. Made of flowers and seeds, food and drink, these offerings are set out for the visiting, hungry dead. These three particular ofrendas have been erected to the memory of an American, Bradley Will, the freelance documentary filmmaker shot dead on Friday as he recorded a clash between protesters and pro-government vigilantes. Further away, on the street called Cal y Canto, by a barricade, there is a more shocking ofrenda to Will's memory: one adorned with a photograph...
...book preaching kindness is The Girl's Guide to Being a Boss (Without Being a Bitch) (Morgan Road), by marketing professionals Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio. As the title trumpets, the B-word is the dreaded description to have hurled at you in anger. In an amusing chick-lit, women's magazine patter (the boss is the "chick-in-charge"), the authors counsel being your authentic, feminine self. "Were our mothers and grandmothers fighting for us to go to college and get jobs we enjoy so we could be forced into sensible shoes and rayon business suits? We hope...
With the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings films and the upcoming Eragon, boys have had more than their share of fantasy-lit icons on the big screen. Now in production: The Golden Compass, in which a young heroine played by newcomer DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS (yes, another little blond named Dakota) journeys to a universe of flying witches, armored bears and humans living alongside their animal-shaped souls. "It's a character-driven effects movie, if there is such a thing," director Chris Weitz says of the tale from Philip Pullman's series His Dark Materials. And what plays...