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...just a phenomenal player,” co-captain Niki Finelli says of Berry. “She has such a strong passion for the game, a natural sense of playing...
...Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville famously opposed freedom with equality, suggesting that the passion for the latter would always override the will for individual liberty. At present, we are confronted with an exception to his rule, as popular majorities assert their collective will by denying same-sex couples the equal legal standing they themselves enjoy. While America’s participatory democracy is in most cases something to be elevated and emulated, in the particular case of minority rights, electoral majorities should not have the final word. This is especially true when popular sentiment demands changes in the constitutions...
...Parent took the initiative to bring high fashion to Harvard, satisfying his own interests while also providing valuable opportunities for Asian designers and his fellow students. Parent has always had a love for fashion, but he felt there was a dearth of ways for him to indulge in this passion. “There aren’t really a lot of creative classes I take or creative offerings [in fashion] at Harvard,” he says while multi-tasking at a model fitting. Parent also believed students were generally apathetic toward fashion, a problem he seeks to rectify...
...reminded of Pixote and City of God and Oliver Twist and a dozen Indian musical melodramas - which are more sanitized by far but display the same obsession for family ties and first love, and are just as unashamed in pushing feelings of joy and despair to the apogee of passion. Jamal's search for his long-lost lifetime love Latika is the stuff of Indian-pop films from the Raj Kapoor era to today. True to its roots, Slumdog, adapted from the novel Q&A by Vikas Swarup, ends with a chastely rapturous kiss and an all-out dance number...
...with Fosse in other productions, described him as a phenomenal choreographer, a perfectionist with great creative impulse. “Everything came out of one clear, specific vision,” she said. Woodies explained that through Neuwirth, the students would be able to bring Fosse’s passion back to life by understanding his vision more concretely. This is, in fact, one of the objectives of Woddie’s course: “To go back to the big bang of creativity, when it first came out of the artist,” she said. The master...