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Someone set off the fire extinguishers in Eliot House Saturday night, but the real flames were outside; evacuated residents watched burning passion in action as two students hooked up in the courtyard...
...world's best universities know the Indian passion for education is a potential goldmine and have been lobbying New Delhi to open up the domestic market for years. True, there will always be people who want to study overseas no matter what, people like Anupriya Diwan, 22, who earned an undergraduate degree in interior design at an Indian college and is now keen to study design in the U.S. "The point is exposure," says Diwan, who was at the exhibition last week to compare European colleges to her U.S. choices. "Friends who have come back have different thought processes...
Dear Sir or Madam: The study of time in Faulkner’s major works has invaded my life and become my passion. One unfortunate side effect is my complete inability to consider the future, much like many of Faulkner’s characters. Emulating Quentin in The Sound and the Fury, I’ve destroyed my watch and begun wandering through Cambridge, searching for my lost youth. Please understand that while my level of understanding grows deeper each day, my connection to these texts is tenuous at best, and cannot be disturbed by such time-anchored requirements like...
Layered on this was the sense of a conservative swarm sweeping the country. War supporters and "values voters" were coming out of the woodwork in elections, lining up for The Passion of the Christ and making Fox the sole TV-news success story of the era. They were collecting scalps--Bill Maher, Peter Arnett, Dan Rather--and taking names. They had blogs and remotes and money, and they hated the press. Journalists might not slant stories to show their loyalty, but what was the harm in hanging a little bunting on the screen...
...Works of Peace” and “The Hero’s Retreat from the World and Fulfillment,” brilliantly capped off the performance with soaring melodies concluding with a trumpet fanfare that resonated in intensity.The performance as a whole was characterized by increasing passion and energy. The final fanfare was a graceful farewell to an intense performance, a fitting microcosm of the evening as a whole...