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...acknowledge their unique interests. It isn’t that there’s a stigma on campus toward non-traditional careers. There’s just an absence of validation. If sticking the Harvard name next to a non-traditional career allows students to suddenly take their passions seriously, let’s keep offering these programs.” FUNDING THE FOODThe climate for food appreciation on campus has changed within the last two decades, but new student groups and a program at OCS alone may not be enough to consider the culinary arts sufficiently integrated...
...sexuality is equally and appropriately nuanced. Penn proves his versatility as an actor capable of playing both internally tortured characters—like Jimmy Markum in “Mystic River”—and open, unguarded idealists like Milk.Throughout the film, Van Sant uses opera, a passion of Milk’s, as a way to highlight the film’s turning points. In particular, the repetition of Puccini’s “Tosca”—one of Milk’s favorite operas—serves as a background...
...basis of their personality more than their art. Even as he turned himself into a bespoke English gentleman, after all, while Pat became the obedient and self-denying Indian wife of legend, Naipaul's strength lay not just in the clarity of his observations but in the passion--the grief and terror and rage--that trembled just beneath them. When Pat finally died, in 1996, French tells us, her husband leaned against a car, weeping uncontrollably, as her ashes were scattered. He knew--such is his tragedy and his power--all that he had done, and all that...
...Like his President brother, Bush has a prickly, my-way-or-the-highway streak that isn't exactly well suited to the give-and-take of the Senate. That's not to say that the notoriously methodical upper chamber couldn't use some of Jeb's admirable, results-driven passion. But while his education reforms, for example, did raise the abysmal accountability level in Florida schools, their overweening emphasis on standardized testing and punitive measures is more reflective of the GOP-dominated state legislature he reigned over and not the Democrat-controlled Senate he would chafe under...
...Passion for Blue & White (Broadway Books) Interior designer Carolyne Roehm examines her fascination with the color scheme that has served as a constant inspiration throughout her 35 years in fashion and decorating...