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...skills. At Harvard, Yuan was able to have more fun, but he did not give up piano. He practices between four and five hours a day, working with Professor of Music Robert Levin ’68, a pianist with an international reputation who has been his teacher and mentor for the last four years. Yuan has also performed with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and last summer he went on a world tour. He is, according to fellow musician Brettman, the Harvard pianist best placed to enter the competitive world of professional concert performance. But Yuan may take a different...
...naval base at Guantanamo as an extralegal camp without accountability,” Goldstein says. The first Yale lawsuits were filed in 1992 when Goldstein was a third-year law student working on a project to help New Haven’s homeless population. Even though Koh was his mentor, Goldstein did not join the cause: he was afraid of being unable to finish his graduation requirements. But the unfolding drama grabbed his attention. “I could tell something important was happening and it ate at me for years,” he says. Goldstein came back...
...Dahlstrom is on trial for a month as one of several AES employment coordinators. The role is the most crucial for the agency, as it combines marketing, local knowledge, and savvy in getting employers to hire Aboriginal people; it then requires poise and wisdom to mentor the new workers and to maintain the relationship with the employer. "The employment coordinators are our lifeblood," says Estens. "They're our strongest and weakest link." Finding people with the necessary experience is difficult; the pressure to perform is high, as is the turnover; and the best ones always seem to end up with...
DIED. PAT MORITA, 73, actor nominated for an Academy Award for his quietly wise, wry Mr. Miyagi, the martial-arts mentor in 1984's The Karate Kid and its three sequels; of natural causes; in Las Vegas. Born in California to migrant fruit-pickers, Morita lived in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. At 30, the aspiring comic gave up his day job to focus on acting, first winning national fame as Arnold, owner of the restaurant favored by Fonzie and friends in the sitcom Happy Days...
...DIED. PAT MORITA, 73, actor nominated for an Academy Award for his wise, wry Mr. Miyagi, the martial-arts mentor in 1984's The Karate Kid and its three sequels; in Las Vegas. Born in California to migrant fruit-pickers, Morita lived with his family in a U.S. internment camp for Japanese during World War II. The aspiring comic entered show business at 30 and first won national fame as Arnold, manager of the teen hangout in the 1970s-'80s sitcom Happy Days...