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Kara E. Kaufman ’08 has a difficult time staying still. As she walks briskly past the stage at the Loeb Drama Center, the former rhythmic gymnast may just as well have been on a landing mat, about to launch into a somersault. She sits down on the edge of a seat and restlessly gazes at the stage.The senior has been stage-managing for the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) for the past four years and served as president last year. In addition to learning more about the process of theater production, Kaufman has grown personally from...
...lose? I didn't lose s---, y'know. I broke my foot because I got up at six o'clock in the morning, first time I ever broke anything, and it was dark and I didn't know where I was. I was looking for the [yoga] mat and I just fell down the steps and broke my foot. And that's okay though because I learned to practice [yoga] six weeks with a broken foot...
...opens with a story about a woman who talks about how she's always been on the perfectionistic side and it wasn't an issue. She started dating her husband and things were okay and they got married, and she'd sort of nudge him about leaving the bathroom mat on the floor after a shower. But it wasn't until they had kids that it really got bad and she would project all her issues on him. Twice a year she travels for business and before she leaves she types out these long instructions for him. She calls every...
...salvage them? On the other hand, Hizballah has re-armed, Israel could attack Lebanon again at any time, Iran is probably building nuclear weapons, the surge in Iraq is a mirage, and America is falling apart. Is now the right time to spend $1,000 on a wool mat...
...other changes to the vault as well, including a larger, padded safety zone around the take-off point. "I remember it was a big thing in the gymnastics world," she says, when the International Gymnastics Federation's new rules required the springboard to be surrounded by a horseshoe-shaped mat. "You wouldn't get credit for the vault if you didn't have a safety mat," says Miller. "Before that, it was just the springboard, and if you launched crooked, then you were going to get hurt." Today, safety mats around all of the apparatuses are thicker, and better padded...