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...pressure to achieve remains strong for Asian-American women too," says Cara Wong, 20, a Harvard-Radcliffe junior who switched from biochemistry to government studies last year. "I had such a narrow focus when I came here," she says. "The whole path to medical school was laid out for me. Then I started reading history and government here, and I really enjoyed them." Wong adds that her parents were "not at all happy" with the change. "My mother was afraid that as a government major I would end up as a welfare worker," she says...
Hill's directing deserves commendation. He utilizes every inch of the small Leverett House Library, including many doors, the stairways and the narrow passageway behind the seats, to expand the set and surround the audience with action. Light Designer Tim Magner uses different lighting techniques to convey changes in time and space--particularly during Jake's occasional daydream or flashback. And Hill's staging enchances the production by emphasizing the riff between the two clans. One side of the stage is reserved for Jake's family, another for Beth's, and their paths rarely cross...
Some FAS professors have said they question Leder's committment to undergraduate education. Though all acknolwedge that his research accomplishments are impressive, some suggest his range of academic interests is too narrow...
...White House administrations, from Kennedy through Nixon, were consumed by a debate over federal antipoverty efforts -- a Washington policy war that combined the worst features of academic detachment and fang-baring political ambition. His heroes are the migrants who managed to clamber into the middle class, mostly on the narrow foothold of modest government jobs. His villains -- and there are more of those -- are the politicians and policymakers of both left and right who botched the War on Poverty...
...Among the tactics: Remotely piloted vehicles, or pilotless drone planes, guided soldiers to the most thinly held spots in the Iraqi lines. Line charges, or 100-yd.-long strings of tubing laced with explosives, blasted paths through minefields. Tanks and armored personnel carriers drove through those paths in long, narrow files, observing strict radio silence. Their drivers communicated by hand signals -- even in the dark, when night-vision devices worked perfectly...