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...threaten to castrate him if he ever touches his wife again. Thus, Thiong’o’s plot ridicules the men who dare to believe that, due to specious tradition, they are superior to the other sex. In the third couple of the story, Mariko and Maritha, Thiong’o examines the ways in which Christianity impacts Africa. Mariko and Maritha are devout Christians whose problem is not one of violence. In fact, they have been happy partners for so many years that their fellow townsmen see them as twins. Society is shocked when they start coming...
This summer’s ballroom dancing hit, ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars,” enraptured the nation. But while most merely dreamed of dancing gracefully, Harvard student Mariko E. Cantley ’06 was living that Ginger Rogers-esque dream. Having only first tried ballroom dancing the summer before her freshman year, Mariko spent last summer traveling, practicing; finally, she decided to go professional with ballroom dancing.Like most girls, I started dancing ballet at age five. And I continued with ballet until the end of my junior year in high school...
...high school student in the 1970s, Mariko Kato was fascinated by physics. At an after-hours physics club at her school, she was so busy devouring Richard Feynman's lectures on quantum mechanics that she barely noticed she was the only girl in the room. "The complexity of nature was refined into these simple, beautiful theories," says Kato. "I only wanted to learn more...
Fifth-seeded sophomore Eva Wang brushed aside Old Dominion’s Kerstin Endlich and William and Mary’s Lena Sherbakov on the way to her round of 16 match-up against Virginia’s Mariko Fritz-Krockow, against whom she ultimately fell...
...When Mariko Ferronato was 3 years old, she would regularly quiz her mother about which half of her was white and which was Japanese. "I thought there was a physical line that divided the Japanese me from the Caucasian me," says Ferronato, now 18 and a high school senior. A soccer goalie who plays the violin and has her eye on pre-med studies, Ferronato says her racial identity developed in stages. At her mostly white elementary school, she considered herself a white person "who happened to eat a lot of sticky rice." But in the ninth grade...