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...year of high school, won the Phyllis Anderson Prize for Playwriting in 2006 and was produced in Berlin the next year. “The play is about a mother and daughter on their wedding day, but it soon turns into a metaphysical poem.” Growing up near Cambridge, Pecci often saw theater performances at the American Repertory Theatre. The ART, he says, was “one of the reasons—if not ‘the’ reason—that I came to Harvard.” But when he arrived on campus...
...facilitated forays into entrepreneurship and community service. Besides teaching volunteer workshops for SPARK, an after school program in Boston for inner-city youth, he works on “La Casas de Experanza,” a micro-enterprise project aimed at helping develop the slums of La Prusia, near Grenada, Nicaragua, by giving them the means to support themselves in an independent, sustainable way. “I’m researching environmentally conscious kiln options and developing a business model,” he says. “As of now, it’s basically 200 families...
...message board comments of Some Famous Author.”For those still holding out on me, here’s one last thing to think about: You’re sitting with your Kindle in a forest that you might have saved by buying your Kindle. You are near the end of a classic with a surprising ending—say Hemingway’s “A Farwell to Arms”—and just before the best (or, in this case, the worst) part, your Kindle’s battery dies! You are miles...
...will get his job? There is near consensus among sources inside and outside the Administration that the President will pick a woman. George W. Bush replaced one of the court's two women, Sandra Day O'Connor with a man, Justice Samuel Alito, after Bush's legal counsel, Harriet Miers, withdrew under attack from the right. The other near-absolute requirement will be relative youth, as Obama and the Democrats will want to ensure a left-of-center voice for decades to come on a court featuring two relatively young conservative justices, Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts. (See pictures...
...Samsung NC10 The NC10 ($450) is built for life on the road. Its sturdy plastic casing, which houses a 10.2-in. (26 cm) screen and 160-GB hard drive, will stand up to a battering in your bag. And its wide trackpad and near laptop-size keyboard mean that even the sausage-fingered can tap happily on this micro-PC. www.samsung.com...