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...Indian,” my nationality isn’t interesting anymore. (It’s always possible that I’m just a crashing bore when I talk about my country, but I know many other internationals who aren’t.) Admittedly, mine is a broad characterization. My roommates and friends are acutely conscious of my different world view, and treat it as a part of me. But this observation does seem to apply to those who don’t have an international in their suite, or a close international friend. Bereft of the contact, they?...
...feminine ferocity of my friends on the Harvard [women’s] lacrosse team to be my most important contribution to the University,” said Matthew D. Bellfy ’06. “And I call upon all other students to join their voices with mine in the stands this year...
...says that grant-giving entities like the Harvard Foundation and the Undergraduate Council have been excellent in terms of financial support, but she sees the paltry American Indian studies curriculum at Harvard as the ultimate deterrent for potential applicants. “Friends of mine who wanted to apply to Harvard found that it had nothing to offer them,” she says. And without a department and without aggressive recruitment of American Indian students and professors, the University might be losing out to other schools...
Which town? Our Town. Von Trier asserts his intention to rethink the classic Thornton Wilder play with his film's magnificent first shot: an overhead view of a nearly bare stage set, with Dogville's properties and props designated by painted lines. The old mine down the road is identified by a sign reading OLD MINE. A townsman closes an invisible door and we hear a slamming noise. Von Trier presumably wants us to attend to his characters' yearnings and prejudices without the distractions of period furnishings...
...exact same one, twice. What does that tell you? It was a form letter." WAYNE DEUTSCH, father of U.S. soldier Michael Deutsch, who was killed by a land mine in Iraq in July, on receiving two condolence letters from the White House...