Word: passionate
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...school. We only had one shoe.") He hasn't been back to Merseyside since his stepdad's funeral 11 years ago. Ask Ringo if he's English and he answers, "No. I'm world." If there's a football match, he'll root for England or his real passion, Liverpool FC; otherwise, he says, "I feel more American sometimes than most Americans." His accent, unlike the man himself, still pays dues to his homeland, but also owes a few of its cadences to California. Yet Ringo sees himself as a typical Liverpudlian at least in one respect. "I bring humor...
...with his desire to see the two Koreas unite. “I’m trying to help with uniting as a musician. If I could do anything, it would be performing at their unification,” he said. Koh’s friends speak to his passion. “He’s concerned with many things in the world and there’s a human aspect to him—it’s not only music,” said Samer M. Haidar ’08. World-class cello skills would...
...know about until we immerse ourselves in the situation,” said Anna Marie Chen ’09, referring to scientific field trips for college courses. Chen, the president of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Undergraduate Group (OEBug) and one of the panelists, discovered her passion for OEB on a freshman year field trip in Puerto Rico where she studied lizards. Approximately 350 students, professors, and Wilson fanatics attended the event, according to HMNH Director of Communications and Marketing Blue Magruder. The film was briefly interrupted by a “technical difficulty...
...along the way she has worked on two of her Dad's gubernatorial campaigns, a local race in Oregon and President Bush's reelection campaign in Ohio. She inherited the organizational talents of her mother, Janet (who until recently worked for the Red Cross in Little Rock), and the passion for politics of her Dad, and no small amount of his famous charm. Asked about boyfriends, she fends off the question with a coy smile: "You're not going to put that in your story...
...active wait-list.” And this is nothing compared to the bewildering array of “comps” that await students after they register. Sometimes it seems that what actually binds all Harvard’s 6,000-plus undergraduates together is their deep passion for applying to things. “Comp” itself is a term of indeterminate pedigree. The Crimson claims that it stands for “competence”; other organizations use it as a stand-in for “competition.” Yet whatever its etymology...