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...playground. Those were legendary back in the day. We didn't have uniforms. It was just shirts and skins, and we just went at it all day in the 90° heat. It wasn't about money. It wasn't about fame. It was just your love and passion for the game. Those were guys that nobody would ever know, but those were the best one-on-one games I ever had in my life...
...organize and unify divergent perspectives on sensitive issues, adding, “I could see her transitioning herself into a position involving national security.” According to Andreasen, Sewall’s work at the center focused on two major projects, both of which illustrated her passion for studying the interaction between humanitarian needs and armed conflict. The Mass Atrocities Response Operations Project, which Sewall directs at the Carr Center, is a joint three-year project with the U.S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute. The Harvard-based project studies the prevention of genocide and similar mass atrocities...
...Lowdown: Everett is a linguistics professor at Illinois State University, and in addition to cultural observations like the ones above, he spends a lot of time reveling in his passion for sentences and structure. The Pirahãs language contains just eight consonants and three vowels; their repetitive staccato sounds like indecipherable gibberish to just about everyone else in the world except for Everett. Until he came along, no one outside of the tribe had ever become fluent in Pirahã. A few years ago, Everett made waves in the linguistics world when he challenged Noam Chomsky's idea that...
...backdrop of Hildy’s personal conflicts. The star reporter struggles with a dilemma that many Harvard students may relate to: the choice between his love life—his fiancée Peggy (Alana C. Ju ’10)—and his passion for his demanding career, embodied by Burns.Halprin gives a strong performance, conveying this mental battle well. Throughout the play, Halprin persistently exudes the attitude of a torn man, rationalizing his coverage of the story to his wife but unable to answer her accusation that “It’s always...
...Galpin set that mark this week, stripping and eating the fruit in about 16 seconds) you're not alone. "There can be a snobbishness about record breaking," the book's editor-in-chief, Craig Glenday, told Britain's Sky News. "What may seem pointless to you could be a passion for someone else." For some, record-breaking itself has become a consuming passion. Ashrita Furman, a health-food store manager from Queens, N.Y., has broken more than 200 records. He notched his first in 1979 by doing more than 27,000 jumping jacks, and has since hop-scotched the globe...