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...whose parents are Chinese and caucasian, grew up lower middle-class in Manchester, N.H. Her mother was a pre-school teacher and her father worked in retail...
...accepted to Harvard feel confident that they have been separated from the goats. But are they sheep among sheep? This remains to be seen. The process of winnowing may begin even before students arrive at Harvard, as some experience the rarefied pleasure of applying to one or more pre-orientation programs. The Freshman Urban Program, for instance, gleefully informs applicants that: “Due to limited space and resources, we can only accept a fraction of those who apply, and we maintain an active wait-list.” And this is nothing compared to the bewildering array...
...second-tier rock star's kid. But she's an actual English girl (with an American mother), and a knockout. Her look is both wary and sleepy, as if she'd just been poked awake from a bad dream. There's an intelligent insolence about Richards, suggesting a pre-teen Tilda Swinton. The girl has the burden of carrying the first half of the movie virtually alone, and does so effortlessly - as if she knows she was born to be appreciated in gigantic closeup - but unself-consciously, without the preening assertiveness of so many child actors. Thanks to Richards, Lyra...
...offered an alumni donation of $1,000,000 to build a theatre at Harvard and allow the students in his playwriting class to mount their works.Yet university officials, still entrenched in intellectual prejudices against the study of dramatic works, scoffed at what they felt would be a frivolous pre-professional program.Baker went to New Haven to establish the Yale School of Drama, and the rest, as they say, is history. His departure ensured Yale’s well-known dominance over Harvard in the theater world.EXTRACURRICULAR RENAISSANCEWhile Yale’s dramatic scene took off in an institutionalized setting, Harvard?...
...play is heightened by the approach of his thirtieth birthday. Even though Derek S. Mueller ’10, who plays Jon, is a full decade younger than his character, he is starting to feel the same pressure already. “I had a sort of pre-20 crisis the other day, because in the middle of November I turned 20, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m turning 20, and I’m no longer a kid, and I need to figure out what my life is about...