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Luckily for Harvard jocks and Harvard geeks alike, we were all chosen for a variety of reasons, not just grades, test scores or whatever—McGrath Lewis calls them “distinguishing excellences.” It may, in fact, be useful to ponder why we might have been chosen and what we can do to validate that choice...
...House; January 22), both giving the book a starred review. Says Kirkus: "The ghastly story of lynching, by the coauthor of 'We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi'...This is history most fundamental, the kind that forces us to ponder the very nature of humanity." PW agrees: "Prodigiously researched, tightly written and compelling history of the lynching of African-Americans...Dray balances moral indignation with a sound understanding of history and politics. The result is vital, hard-hitting cultural history...
...function of occasionally delivering commentary, he doesn’t seem to fit in the show. It is also noteworthy, then, that he is the only character that the show’s authors conjured without relying on the source material. Their achievement with this creation leaves one to ponder how successful they might have been if, freed from Butterfly, they had pursued the character of the Engineer or worked to devise other new characters. Such reflections, though tantalizing, do nothing to alter or elevate the present work that is on exhibition at North Shore Music Theatre...
...most people have forgotten the popular crowd of high school. The sting of rejection has long since disappeared. As they attend important board meetings or travel around the world, I doubt that many recent Harvard graduates sadly ponder their exclusion from a Saturday night party at the Fox in 1997. Nor do these successful alumni sit around and cry about how this snub affected the rest of their lives. The final clubs simply don’t play a large role in the formation of successful students like they used...
While preteens ponder political activism and simultaneously drool over Blink 182, Madeleine will be busy preparing for PSLM’s next rally (scheduled for Nov. 30) with the Dining Hall Workers’ Union. “This is an ongoing struggle. The sit-in was not the last word on the issue of worker rights on campus and more than ever we need students to come forth in support of the workers,” Madeleine says, emphatically...