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Crossing Over’s prologue, entitled “The Passion,” sets the tone of the book, which reads like a memoir. When asked why he did not take his accounts of his stay in Cherán and turn them into a fictional account, Martínez responded that his journalistic style, which is “part manifesto, part reportage, [part] memoir,” allowed him to “expand and contract, like an accordion.” This is evident in his effective handling of complex issues in his narrative...
...sympathize. “There is still a $24,000 discrepancy between what Harvard thinks I can pay and what my family actually can.” As a result of this discrepancy, Stump spends any extra time she has at Harvard working instead of pursuing her passion for singing. “In high school all I did was sing,” she says. But balancing eight to 12 hours of work at Widener library each week, a board position in a community service organization, and a reading-intensive Social Studies concentration forced her to give...
International research is not an intellectual passion of his, Knafel says. But for a time he chaired the Overseer’s Visiting Committee to the Center for International Affairs, a position that put him in contact with the Faculty who use Coolidge Hall and who will use CGIS...
...scenes progress, Claire, who enjoys play-acting as their Madame, sparks Solange’s untapped passion, and Solange, in turn, pushes Claire deeper and deeper into her adopted role. Together, they plot to murder Madame, who embodies the upper-class lifestyle that has robbed them of their sense of identity...
It’s true that Harvard relationships are of two distinct breeds: the casual hook-up and the insular commitment. But even when students willingly advance from booty-call standing to a more serious, romantic status, hardly anything ever comes of these relationships. There may be passion and devotion enough during the school term, but come graduation, most students bid their alma mater and their true love adieu at the same time...