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Indeed, they did work hard on this magazine, and their passion for journalism is apparent. But read that editor’s note again; there’s something wrong here. No matter how hard Washkowitz and Kaden tried to get Harvard right, they didn’t. For most people at Harvard, the “experience we are all a part of” does not even come close to the lifestyles depicted in Scene. Yes, we have Birmingham in the role of Paris Hilton (by her own admission, famous for her celebrity and little else), but she?...
...guarantee in the future.” Yuan started playing the piano when he was just four years old and living in Taiwan. At first, he played for the same reason most kids do—because his parents signed him up. But eventually music became his passion. “I enjoyed being able to completely put myself at the audience’s mercy, to express my feelings,” he says. “Throughout high school, this is what I lived by. This is what I wanted to do.” Even...
...speaking for the world, I mostly did love it. The Color Purple takes the seriousness of purpose that marked the signature musicals of the 70s, 80s and 90s (your Evita, your Les Miz, your Passion) and hitches it to the propulsive narrative zip of this decade's signature musical comedies (The Producers and its zany progeny). It's an epic, largely tragic tale that rarely dawdles or meanders. Terrible things happen: incest, abduction, the dankest, most intimate forms of betrayal. Yet they are presented with so much energy, in the narrative and the performances, that the effect can be exhilarating...
...longtime friends of John S. Haddock ’07 and Annie R. Riley ’07, we support their candidacy for UC president and vice president because we know they have a plan to fix the UC, the know-how to implement it, and the passion and dedication to see it through. But they also know that the UC needs more than platitudes about reform—it needs a culture change...
Thus, as vice president, Annie will lend a crucial perspective to the UC: she knows first-hand the intense passion students feel for their extracurricular commitments. She has experienced the struggles that student groups go through to get grants processed and to secure space for their events. She and John will bring to the UC a tireless work ethic and a renewed commitment to the groups and communities in which so many students have invested so much...