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Expressing his frustration, Ralph L. Bouquet ’09, who was present at the challenge, stated, “The tone of a lot of the emails angered me. There was a total disregard for the possibility that we could be Harvard students. Contacting the police first—instead of the tutors or the house masters—indicated a severe problem with perceptions of black students on campus...
...atheist and future medical professional, I plan to dutifully care for all my patients equally, the religious and the secular. I will be a present and fervent listener at the time of a grim diagnosis, attempting to understand my patient’s fears/desires and offering guidance for the future. And, yes, I will even pray with a patient should...
...PRESENT LIFE IN THE KEY OF ME ME ME In Hairspray, Blonsky and Travolta, who is in drag here as Edna Turnblad in the role Harvey Fierstein played on stage, are sassy mother-daughter spokes-models for plus-size empowerment. "You have to find a theme that contemporary audiences relate to," says Neil Meron, producer of Hairspray and the 2002 film Chicago. "Hairspray is about body image, racial tolerance, what constitutes a family." Think Oprah's Live Your Best Life tour, with a beat and bigger hair...
...burgeoning international interest in sepak takraw won't catapult their players into the stratospheric income brackets of a Thierry Henry or Kobe Bryant, but it could turn them into decently paid professionals. At present, a top player in the Thai league, the sport's most developed, will earn a rough maximum of $15,000 for a four-month season. A true god of the game like Thai veteran Suebsak Phunsueb-considered sepak takraw's top player for the past several years-might be able to supplement that with advertisements and media work, but he's still no Beckham...
...team is 77.7 percent white and 17.5 percent black, which is well below the 45.4 percent national average for Division I, but over twice the percentage of African-Americans in the student body in ’04-’05. Percentage-wise, the best represented sport at present is men’s basketball, at 28.6 percent (compared to a national average of 57.8 percent). Men’s soccer comes in second, with 26.9 percent of its roster composed of black students—a mark that leads the Ivy League...