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...that sucks. I’m going to prove you wrong”—but also from natural talent. “Though Patrick doesn’t have the extensive dance training that I and many of his other dancers have,” says Marin J. D. Orlosky ’07, a dance associate at the Office for the Arts at Harvard, “he has a unique gift for embodying dance styles—and sometimes even specific choreography—after only watching a dance a few times...
...novel, Imperfect Birds (Riverhead; 278 pages), functions in reverse, suggesting all the terror of the big picture. It's about Elizabeth and James, liberal do-gooders from Marin County, California (and the subjects of her previous novels Rosie and Crooked Little Heart), and their daughter Rosie. At 17, Rosie is "black-haired, strapping and fabulous" and an academic high achiever, but she does every drug under the sun, including her peers' parentally dispensed Adderall. The book is a stark illustration of deception, denial and parents' desperate desire to stay loved. You emerge from its last bittersweet pages ready to drug...
...myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button." Imperfect Birds is a well-informed wake-up call. Lamott is a recovering alcoholic, sober since 1986, and has just ushered her son Sam through his high school years in a bohemian enclave of Marin where drugs are there for the asking. Kids who remind her of Rosie are everywhere she turns. On this Sunday morning, she has just returned from a hike to the ocean, where she watched a search-and-rescue team look for a 17-year-old girl from Mill Valley...
Competing at skipper for Harvard throughout the two-day affair were juniors Alan Palmer, Teddy Himler, and Stokes, along with sophomore Brendan Kopp. Senior Michelle Konstadt, junior Megan Wareham, and freshman Alma Lafler took care of the Crimson’s crewing duties in the Washington Sailing Marin Lagoon, which posed an unexpected additional challenge for some teams...
MCPOOP and other projects are eager to help on the supply side. "We're going to have plenty," predicts Rathmann. "Tons of tourists come to West Marin, and they all leave us their poop...