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...block captains to canvass residents who have returned, noting which homes are occupied, who lives in flimsy trailers and which elderly residents might need help. In Gentilly, where many senior citizens died, residents are looking into their own text-messaging system for emergency alerts. Self-sufficiency is everyone's mantra, from civic associations to city hall. "We have purchased jet boats and sandbags," says Glenn Stoudt of the Lakeview Civic Improvement Association, before trying out a joke. "There are several arks being constructed, and the rats and mosquitoes are pairing up." That's called hurricane humor in these parts...
...even if [dance] is not a nine-to-five stable occupation it’s not something you can’t be successful at.” And in response to the question of how to achieve that success, Cloud takes a line from Martha Graham as her mantra: “Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion...
...where the person next to you at the bar might be the next CEO of a Fortune 500. Despite several nights of such extracurricular activities each week, HBS students still find time to make it to class. Even after one particularly rowdy night with the HBS Canadian Club at Mantra, a trendy Boston club, almost every student was present the following morning in Aldrich Hall, Room 11, section E’s home base. “Sleep gets sacrificed,” says section member Seth B. Blackley about the HBS lifestyle. According to Kim, section E usually...
...space rental tab for the kind of lavish spectacles that have become prime-time fare on MTV's highly rated My Super Sweet 16. The show documents the excesses of privileged youths commemorating the mighty achievement of making it through their 16th year. Shell-shocked parents--always uttering the mantra "It was worth it"--typically peel off checks for upwards of $200,000. We learn that from the Sun Belt to Erie, Pa., the lack of taste knows no ethnic, religious or cultural bounds. You give teenagers $200,000, and they will spend it exactly as you would expect...
...president of the Chemistry Club, waving back to someone who actually wasn’t waving at you is still going to sting. But it is simply our eagerness to over-think our actions and over-diagnose our weaknesses that makes “awkward” the mantra du jour of Harvard students...