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...also gives students the chance to practice public service. Students write about, debate, and find solutions to the most pressing political issues of the day at the Harvard Political Review, the Harvard Political Union, and the IOP’s Policy Program, respectively. Students can also impart their passion for public service on others, be it by training Harvard employees to become citizens as a citizenship tutor or teaching Boston students about being an informed citizens in the CIVICS program. Beyond Boston, students raise awareness about politics among young people through the National Campaign for Civic Engagement, and they take...
...smaller, and you might as well start your own. A leadership position in something huge, like The Crimson or the Institute of Politics, would look really great on a resumé and can, if Goldman Sachs ever asks, be easily justified as the result of your “passion,” “dedication,” or even “remote interest.” But you should be prepared to jettison those commitments in a year or two, if it looks like someone else is going to end up president. Remember: if all else...
...Hughes' life: a breakdown, the suicide at age 34 of his sculptor son Danton, his happy third marriage to American artist Doris Downes and his rise as a celebrity art historian and author of, among other masterpieces, A Jerk on One End, a charming volume about his lifelong passion for fishing. Clearly, another memoir is required. But first Hughes may have to finish the book on Leonardo and wrestle further with the demons that drove him to become such an implacable enemy of cant, mediocrity and the quiet life. Not even his near-death experience on that road in Western...
...Kuumba singers performed. Counter spoke of the “loss of a member of the Harvard community.” He read a short Richard Fife poem entitled “No Person is Ever Truly Alone.” Corbin praised Ekperi’s passion and dedication. He shared a story about Ekperi’s success as a high school basketball player. “She played the game of basketball like she played the game of life,” he said. Gomes, like Macey, encouraged the assembled students to learn from their classmate?...
...Gibson belligerently said that “The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world” while being arrested for driving under the influence of a 0.12 blood alcohol content. Gibson was previously accused of anti-Semitism after his 2004 movie “The Passion of the Christ.” Charged for misdemeanor drunken driving, Gibson awaits a Sept. 28 court date. He has apologized to the Jewish community and has since checked himself into Alcoholics Anonymous. In other news, Lindsay Lohan was chastised by James G. Robinson, the chief executive officer of Morgan...