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...teens gathering nightly to chop and kick like the kung-fu movie star. They ended the training sessions "under the pretext of renovating the gym," Korzeniowski says. "Of course they never finished, and athletics was the only session open." Walking was his destiny. In 1984, he qualified for the Polish championships, where he placed last. But competing on a big stage planted a seed: "I started to dream." The dreams fueled his drive, and led to strong results at major ju-nior meets like the World Student Games in 1991. But success, he now says, convinced him he was better...
Moulton’s television show lapsed last year when he returned to Camp Pendleton in California. The Polish troops who took over in Hillah “didn’t understand how important it was to have a media campaign,” he said...
Method brought groovy design to the dreary world of home-cleaning products with dish-washing soaps in bottles designed by Karim Rashid. Now aesthetes cum cleaners can stock up on the company's almond-scented wood polish and stainless-steel cleaner. Like the smell but not the scrubbing? Look for Method's scented candles and room sprays at Target stores later this month...
With most first-years shuffled into large introductory courses—where personal attention and writing instruction are virtually nonexistent—Expos 20 is a welcome aberration. Since its 1872 inception, the course has allowed first-years to polish their writing skills in a relatively intimate environment; however, more recently, the time-honored program has been met with mixed reviews. Despite its general favorability, many students agree that Expos falls short in several significant ways. The curricular review hopes to fix that, and indeed, the report contains some encouraging proposals. We are optimistic that the next iteration of Harvard?...
Harvard’s own Tha League are celebrated for being a charismatic, skilled unit of rappers, and their stage presence and lyrical polish was clear. So was the impact of their homegrown beats (from Dominique C. Deleon ’04), which sound infinitely better coming through a big system than they do on the Veritas Records compilation. But an hour-long set was perhaps too much to expect. If, as they say, they’re just doing their own thing, it’s ambiguous who their ideal audience might be if not Harvard students. Perhaps...