Word: passional
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...back of the room, ironically behind Miguel Arguellas ’06, who would become my dance partner later that summer, watching all the ballroom dancers, I thought, “Oh my God. I have to do this.”Acting on a dancer’s passion, Mariko contacted the president of Harvard’s ballroom team and was invited to sit in on a summer social dancing class.I took my first ballroom dancing classes over the summer before my freshman year. It was a very diverse class, considering I was used to ballet class with...
...small gestures that reveal Ross's passion for her craft. At a recent trunk show, the designer took pains to help a curious shopper. The woman left with several pieces?and Ross's e-mail address. Several days later, when she received a message of gratitude from the customer, Ross was genuinely moved: ?I want to see people get pleasure out of the jewelry. It's more than money...
...most innovative and environmentally sustainable factories in Bali. The factory walls, made of recyclable mud brick, are topped with thorny bougainvillea, rather than razor wire. John Hardy calls them a ?sustainable solution to the international problem of security.? Workshop roofs are covered with creeping passion-fruit vines to insulate the interiors from the brutal equatorial sun. Their fruit makes for a handy snack. Lotus ponds punctuate factory floors. ?If the fish die,? says Hardy, ?we know something is wrong.? The compound is designed to be light on the ground. If the Hardys closed shop...
...sure, but it must stop. Only by embracing a wide swath of ideas and engaging them head-on with passion can we truly find out who we are. Many of the country’s most influential people spent their college years radically promoting a political agenda they would one day disavow. Conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks and radio commentator Michael Medved essentially did an ideological 180 after college, as did some prominent members of the Harvard faculty...
...From what I can gather from those who remember, these little revolutionaries brought a passion and zeal to class that spurred everyone to fierce discussion. Even more importantly, they meant that section was never ever dull...