Word: passione
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...with her ailing uncle, a Tamil Tiger who was allowed to die with his family because of his family’s loyalty to the Tiger cause.The reader comes to love Yalini, with her appreciation for the sacrifices her parents have made for her, her pure childhood passion for books (“Sometimes I sat for hours, poring over the medical dictionary”), and her relentless research into her family’s history through conversations with relatives, especially her father and her uncle. During her genealogical exploration, Yalini comes to realize that she is the product...
Shen started Savory as a creative outlet for a life-long passion. “I’ve been thinking about food since I was little,” he says. After coming to Harvard, however, Shen was unsatisfied with the current publication options with which to pursue his culinary interests...
...none of the established concentrations offered by the College fit his interdisciplinary interests. So, after a grueling application process, Rice became one of the 21 undergraduates pursuing degrees through the Department of Special Concentrations this year. Established in 1971, the Department of Special Concentrations enables students with a particular passion to combine various fields of study without joint concentrating. But in the Harvard system, one concentration isn’t necessarily easier than two: with little support or guidance from the College, students seeking an individualized concentration must go through intense administrative rigmarole to tailor-make a degree. This lengthy...
...then it’s hard to build a motorcycle factory or a lot of other things. Real estate has always been leverageable, and I can enter the business with relatively little capital and build from there.” For undergraduates wishing to enter real estate, Zell said passion and exposure to the business were the most important characteristics for success. “Here you are at a major university, and in the course of any given year, you have so many interesting people come and share their ideas,” Zell said. “Plus...
...though the Pope clearly wanted to speak out about Islamic-inspired violence, Vatican officials pointed out that the Pope's other aim in the Regensberg speech was to challenge the West to rediscover its own religious roots. This twin clarion call - to Christians who have lost their religious passion and Muslims who may have too much - was supposed to create a "more frank" dialogue among the world's two leading faiths. After the uproar quieted, there has indeed been progress. Top Muslim scholars have written two open letters to the Pope, which has led to the first in a series...