Word: particularity
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...ourselves and each other,” she says. It is this kind of philosophy that has guided her efforts to build community. Sandra L. Di Capua ’07, who has had Shabbat dinner with Cohen almost every Friday night during their time at Harvard, recalls a particular meal when her friend introduced herself to 50 or 60 people at dinner and evoked laughs. “Here was this Friday night Jewish dinner and she was comparing it to a Ghanaian feast, bringing the world together in a sense.” Cohen’s involvement...
...something will indeed always be gaining on you—in particular, that disturbing sense of having youth slip away, which will only grow stronger as the years progress...
Coaches and athletes love talking about moments—spans of seconds so important that they would somehow alter everything that followed in a particular game or season...
...This particular boarding school supported a number of arcane traditions, one of which was a mandatory drown-proofing seminar. My gym class and I entered a cold pool at six in the morning, fully clothed and wearing shoes, to float for 30 minutes. At first, the experience was kind of soothing. Then, the football coach sprayed us with a high-powered hose to mimic “conditions...
...have every confidence that he will carry it out superbly.” Harris co-chaired the Working Group on the Overall Academic Experience in the first phase of the curricular review. He has criticized the current structure of the curriculum and the Core, in particular. “Such a structure results in a terrible waste of faculty resources,” Harris wrote in a 1996 Crimson editorial. “It actually impedes intellectual growth.” Yesterday, Harris praised the new program for its emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches. “That?...