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That requirement might be satisfied by the popular musical history course “First Nights”—meaning that students could conceivably graduate from Harvard without having to read a single novel, poem, or play...
...Gene A. Corbin, executive director of Phillips Brooks House, Alford, and Reverend Peter J. Gomes also spoke at the service, and the Kuumba singers performed. Counter spoke of the “loss of a member of the Harvard community.” He read a short Richard Fife poem entitled “No Person is Ever Truly Alone.” Corbin praised Ekperi’s passion and dedication. He shared a story about Ekperi’s success as a high school basketball player. “She played the game of basketball like she played...
...road harder. If you can't stand to see his things or her things, ask a friend to hold them for you. Maybe you'll never ask for them again. But there may come a day when you'd like to see her second-grade paper or a poem he wrote when he was a sophomore...
...That tactic keeps a soldier alive for another day, but it doesn?t stop agonies of self-recrimination at night, or for many nights to come. Mary Nguyen, an official of the Veterans? Administration in Dallas, quotes a poem: "Yes, the war is over. And over and over and over in my mind." They bring the war home with them, but often they?re not the people they were when they left - once a civilian, now a killing machine. "There?s an old saying," Nguyen adds. "If you?re a good soldier, you?ll be a bad civilian." Sometimes...
...trainer Dewi Hughes, immediately placing me in the marzipan (almost uppermost) layer of the British social fruit cake. I did, it's true. But, I plead, I'd much rather sound like the other 98% of the country. As a preliminary exercise, he has me read Christina Rossetti's poem Remember. His verdict? "Two vowels betray your background." My clenched and elongated [an error occurred while processing this directive]"oh" and "oo" sounds, he says, are the tip-off that I'm a toff. So why don't I want to sound privileged? For starters...