Word: passione
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...September 2007, vibrant campus leader and first-year Yale Law student Joseph M. Hanzich ’06 passed away of a sudden heart attack in New Haven. Today, some of his close friends and family are working in conjunction with Harvard to ensure that his passion for health policy survives in perpetuity...
America's first great piano virtuoso was a darkly handsome, intense young New Yorker named William Kapell. He had it all: a staggering technique, passion and an artistic instinct that pierced to the heart of every piece. In 1953 he died in a plane crash at 31. All that remained were his legend and a handful of recordings. Then in 2004 a trove of new Kapell performances surfaced, recorded at home by Australian department-store salesman Roy Preston from radio broadcasts of Kapell's final tour. A selection of those recordings is now being released in a two-disc...
...begun to suspect that everyone was wrong." Enter Diana, a comely sprite who doles out zenlike job advice ("Think strengths, not weaknesses. Persistence trumps talent. Make excellent mistakes") along with manga magic in this witty Japanese-style graphic novel. She convinces Johnny that following his true creative passion is the secret to workplace success. Luckily for readers, Pink, a best-selling author who studied manga in Tokyo, and his talented illustrator, Rob Ten Pas, seem to have taken her advice...
...Juan Carlos Valdes Fernandez ’11, Miller and Campbell are the cornerstones of the weekly event. Miller discovered early in his college career that the Harvard atmosphere was not a music-friendly one, and without enough events like Acoustic Tuesdays, pursuing his passion would be harder than imagined. “It’s a phenomenon with Harvard jazz musicians; the music just dies with people here,” Miller says. “It might be something spiritual or the lack of time but it sucks...
...passion for grassroots change remained distinct from his academic career: after graduating, Rahn enrolled at the California Institute of Technology to pursue a doctorate in theoretical physics. DeBergalis stayed on for an extra year at what he calls his “really good trade school,” earning a master’s degrees in computer science before starting his career at Cambridge-based technology companies. CHANGING LANES