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...course, [we're] walking in the footsteps of heroes like Studs Terkel, who cut the ribbon on our first booth. It's all about the idea that our stories, the stories of everyday people, are as interesting and as important as the nonsense we get about celebrities 24 hours a day from all corners. If you really take the time to listen, you'll find poetry and grace and eloquence and humor in the stories of people we find all around...
...common room of her Mather quint. She locks their hooked ends together, and for a moment it looks like she is going to swing them over her head in lethal, long-handled circles. But then she puts the knives down. She wants to show off the thick sparkly ribbon she sewed in high school, as well as the sequined ballroom dance costume she just finished altering. “I love glitter,” she says. ALTER EGOLiles is Harvard’s only baton twirler. Her twisting, kicking, spinning routines have enlivened Harvard University Band?...
There’s a flurry of white ribbons across campus as Harvard continues a week-long campaign against violence toward women. Students are wearing ribbons from Dec. 6 to Dec. 13 to show their support for the international movement, which is sponsored here by the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR) and an assortment of student groups and administrative bodies. “It’s to raise dialogue, bring it out to the open,” said Matthew G. Kessler ’09, a member of Harvard Men Against Rape, which is supporting...
With his sober blue suit and quiet way of talking, Andy (The Rock) Bloch might easily be mistaken for a smooth Washington lobbyist were it not for his tell. On his lapel is a red-white-and-blue ribbon speckled with tiny spades, diamonds, hearts and clubs. Bloch, 38, holds two engineering degrees from MIT and a law degree from Harvard. But he makes his living playing cards, and he was in Washington to improve the odds that Congress would lift its year-old ban on Internet poker...
...harsh, hot Santa Ana had kept blowing at gale force, because the inferno came close to pushing Schwarzenegger's system to the breaking point. Last May, a Los Angeles Times investigation found a number of unfilled gaps in the state's firefighting capacity, despite the recommendations of a blue-ribbon commission set up in the wake of disastrous fires in 2003. Big-ticket items, like more manpower and trucks, new communications systems and a modern fleet of water-dumping helicopters and planes, went unfunded by the legislature and the Schwarzenegger administration...