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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Leonardo DiCaprio A committed environmentalist, the actor and producer was most recently in Revolutionary Road By fusing economic opportunity and social justice with climate change, Van Jones is working to build pathways out of poverty through the creation of green jobs. He is the perfect person to help redefine our country's perception of what it means to be green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The TIME 100 | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...allegorical power. Through the unnamed narrator, Rodoreda implements an emotionally stripped style as a stand-in for wanton horror: “The blacksmith did not want me to entomb my child in the tree. He said he would use the ring for some other dead person. I left home, carrying my child, who had turned wooden, like the table.” As originally conceived, this device is supposed to amplify an effect by presenting it in an unusual or grotesque way. The offhand presentation of violence and brutality certainly constitutes a form of defamiliarization, but the effect, conversely...

Author: By Keshava D. Guha, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Death Springs Eternal, But Not Much Else | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...potential to be a strong department with a fantastic building and fantastic resources,” says Gordon, “but I haven’t talked to one person who is really happy with the way the VES department...

Author: By Erika P. Pierson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sketchy Future for VES | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...were extraordinarily pleased to have a person who has one leg firmly rooted in the sciences and another leg that’s interested in and has experience in policy,” said Graham T. Allison, the director of the Belfer Center...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Venky To Head KSG Program | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...Last Name" field, type in the last name of the person whose admissions lottery results you're after...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child | Title: We Cracked Harvard Admissions | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

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