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...might have). It may be a small story in an age of big ones - an odd minor scene in history's bloody pageant - but if you let it sink down inside your mind and resonate there for just a little while, you have to confess that it?s potent, mythic stuff...
...affair with his brother. However, “Gone Too Soon” by Sameera Haque ‘06 was nothing more than a trite rendition of the story in which a child discovers that her mother has cancer. While the story’s basic foundation is potent enough to have made a good performance through a strong delivery, the monologue was unoriginal and a little bland. It should have brought tears to the eyes, but instead, it seemed unrealistic—perhaps because Haque gave the 11-year-old character the personality and maturity...
...have left the Faculty “divided, demoralized, and dispirited,” English Department Chair James Engell said at Tuesday’s session, echoing the sentiments of other professors who spoke at the meeting.And that sense of demoralization has led professors to launch perhaps the most potent challenge to presidential power in recent memory. Some Summers watchers say that Harvard’s 27th president has asserted more control over the individual schools than his recent predecessors.If professors take control of the search for Kirby’s successor and reassert their own authority over FAS, would...
...alchemy of children's fiction, there is no more potent formula than magic and growing up. Witness Harry Potter's dual struggle with mundane hormones and unearthly incantations. A century ago, it was Peter Pan's flat declaration that "Every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead," that held childlike imaginations spellbound. As for growing up, Peter famously had neither the time nor the inclination. But whether he likes it or not, Peter is about to enter the 21st century, with the publication of Peter Pan in Scarlet...
...Lavietes Pavilion, which features an extremely high ceiling and expansive space behind the backboards and on the sidelines, the Lee Amphitheater is an older and more traditional gym, with a claustrophobic, sound-amplifying atmosphere enhanced by the proximity and steep angle of the wooden bleachers, which easily transform into potent noisemakers. Standing throughout the whole game, the Yale students directed most of their animosity towards freshman guard Drew Housman. Housman received a harsh initiation to the Harvard-Yale rivalry, as Bulldogs fans chanted the guard’s name and mocked his shooting whenever he touched the ball. The point...