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Harvard Law School student Michelle Wu ’07, director of APAP-Greater Boston, said she decided to organize the event to link the Asian American student community and local leaders with Cheung, a figure whose accomplishment she said can serve as a model for other Asian Americans...
Daniel J. Rubin: I was living in Chicago and doing a lot of different things. I was writing for a children’s television show, and I was working for two different theater groups. I was writing songs and performing at local clubs, and I wrote short films and produced them on the weekends using equipment from corporate media departments, and actors I knew from the theater, and somebody suggested I should write a movie, so I wrote a movie. And I sold it and thought, “That was easy...
Each trip has several friendly games scheduled with local teams. Rachelle M. Calixte ’10, a member of the rugby team’s planning committee, says of playing Irish teams, “It’s going to be a little intimidating, but luckily our training has already been underway—we’ve been practicing for about a month...
...Though they couldn’t get tickets to the home games, they’ll still be able to experience Irish sports fanaticism at its best. “I’m sure we can find tons of places to watch the game with local fans...
...charges, according to Madeline Bernstein, president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles. "The bottom line is that there aren't a lot of felony convictions for animal abuse in the state of California," says Bernstein. The proposal also puts an added burden on local police - operating at a time of state funding cuts - by requiring them to gather registry information on convicted felons and transfer the information to the Department of Justice within three days of collection. (See pictures of the world's ugliest dogs...