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...respectively, high school seniors Kyle Casey, who verbally committed to Harvard in February, and Dee Giger, who committed to the Crimson last July, each cited Wade as one of their primary reasons for choosing the College.“He was very persistent and comes off immediately as a personal, great guy,” said freshman guard Oliver McNally, one of the players recruited by Wade last season. “He can make connections with all types of kids.”Wade’s departure comes on the eve of a weekend in which Harvard plays...
...derived from it? That Harold Bloom’s cantankerous—I think you use the word “imperious”—nature, that he is a grumpy old man, proves that the routine of reading does not make one a better person? To thus write off the whole endeavor as merely a pleasurable exercise seems wholly precipitous, even ignorant. (Though, of course, the fact that I’m writing you rather indignantly, and perhaps rather imperiously myself, having nurtured this grudge against your article for a third of my life, does seem...
...compassion advocate human understanding in the face of seriously bad behavior; they tell us that people are complicated, that we should delve beneath the surface of society’s most troubled and attempt to connect. But for most people, the only way to interact with such a terrifying person is superficial at best.Documentary filmmaking provides the opportunity to truly deliver someone else’s reality, even if that person is as seemingly insane as Mike Tyson. James Toback ’66 is particularly attuned to this power. After Harvard, he went on to become a highly controversial...
...based project, The Gloaming, which he hopes will act as a crossroads where distinct individuals’ ideas and thoughts meet. “It’s an experiment to try to do something that’s interactive, but getting outside of the one-person-to-one-person interaction,” says Rice, who is a special concentrator in Esoteric Studies: Mysticism and Modernism in Western Thought. The Gloaming—what he describes as an “evolving online novel”—includes narration, illustration, and soundscapes that portray the experience...
...also prominent in the women’s music movement. During her residence, Williamson will attend classes and students’ performances, but she plans to strike a balance between the roles of teacher and student. “It doesn’t interest me to be the person who owns arcane knowledge and keeps it to herself…as if that were an advantage,” she says. “I’ve always had the desire to be a teacher. There are teachers that can just strike you down... I don?...