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...director of CityStep last year and is now one of the Cambridge Student Partnerships directors. Monique volunteers in Project Baby, and Pat is a prefect. With their plates full of theater, a cappella, varsity sports and the Caribbean Club, these selfless seniors have devoted much of their precious study time to helping out in the community...
...expected me to be: kinder, braver and more generous. It was much easier to daub myself into an active, accomplished “Portrait of the Artist as a Success” than it was to quarry in my soul with a pickaxe, searching for a vein of something precious and rare. But in doing so, I came to know that the work of personal goodness is richer and more real than anything that sparkles on the face of a resume, that life is more extraordinary than the automated tramp from weekend to weekend and that this self of mine...
...woman men want to possess, adore. She is also Vietnam in all its luscious beauty?a precious fruit the West has to get its hands on, to devour and defile. In The Quiet American, Phuong is as much metaphor as flesh. Yet the actress playing her must evoke the humanity and the hurt within a succulent love object. That is the sweet surprise of Do Thi Hai Yen's performance. With a smile that suggests duress and glances that murmur reproach, Yen speaks for Vietnam. "She suffers much," Yen says of Phuong, "but she keeps her character...
...Playing a nationally touted team like Northeastern provides us with a precious opportunity to dispel some of the myths about Harvard football,” said senior placekicker Anders Blewett. “This is our chance to show Beantown and the rest of the nation that the Ivies don’t mess around...
...unlikely to be useful to humans. They may be interesting for scientists and pleasing to look at, but the pig-tailed bandicoots of the world are not often missed. That unconcern may be for the best. Spending millions of dollars to save, say, the California condor can divert precious resources away from saving entire ecosystems with scores or even hundreds of species. The sad truth is that the natural world cannot be preserved in its current state. Worrying about single species obscures the larger challenge of preserving entire ecosystems...