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...first noticed the inscriptions during my sophomore fall, when I was on my way to what was to be a particularly uninspiring section for Ec 10. As I gazed out the window and absent-mindedly filled my notebook with supply and demand curves, I wondered whether it was part of former University President Charles W. Eliot’s (Class of 1853) plan when he thought of the inscriptions, that the gates would be locked at 7 P.M. every day, effectively hindering townies from growing in wisdom and freshmen from serving their country. I also wondered how much wisdom...
...After this episode, my driver thought it prudent to avoid coming on a visit to several storm-ravaged villages. A boat was arranged and in my notebook, he wrote out basic questions in Burmese that I could at least point to when meeting cyclone victims: what is your village name, what is the death toll, have you gotten any government...
...takes less than 10 minutes for the local police to catch up with us. Accompanied by two officers, a police lieutenant copies our passport details into his notebook, shakes our hands,and leaves. At the monastery, we are told "no photos, no interviews" by a fourth officer. The relief effort isn?t working-the UN and other agencies have complained that Myanmar is dragging its feet on the issuing of visas for its personnel they say are badly needed to cope with the crisis-but the apparatus of state control, which watches Burmese and foreigners alike, is apparently doing just...
...wild imagination” and her determined, artistic drive. She approached Harvard fresh from four years on the competitive forensics team at Milton Academy, where she was able to spend a year getting to know the characters she portrayed. When playing Teresa, for example, Kargman filled a notebook with personal details about the character’s life.“It was such a great foundation for me, in terms of learning to be able to create an entire world on your own,” Kargman says. “It taught me about rehearsal process and being...
...different brewing techniques would influence the final character of the beer, [and] ways you could tweak things to make the beer taste one way or another,” Shier says.Impressed by Eisele’s enthusiasm and attention to detail, Shier notes Eisele was never without notebook in-hand.“When I worked with him, he whipped it out at least 20 times to scribble something in it,” Shier says. “He kept you on your toes because he is inquisitive about basically everything.”As Eisele?...