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...life. I’ve been to London, New York, Las Vegas, Vermont, Virginia, and Atlantic City. I spent the bulk of my time interning in Washington, and my mind is full of images of touring the West Wing, sitting in the studio for a taping of Crossfire, riding roller coasters with my chief-of-staff, and pacing the halls of Congress at midnight. But amongst these experiences and memories, some of which I will cram into this piece, some of which will never find their way onto paper, there is one part of my summer in Washington that towers...
...rode my first roller coaster, and despite the fact that the Superman ride had gotten stuck moments before I got on, I wound up riding it until they kicked us off and closed the park...
Relatively unknown to the Harvard stage, Anne Jump ’01 is outstanding as Juliet. From her first entrance on roller blades, Anne is the perfect young Juliet of the first act. She is brilliant in the moments of developing young love, especially shining in the balcony scene...
Maybe some were tricked into coming out West, goaded on by the same visions of utopia that I was. Or maybe some were here before the gold rush, saw the roller-coaster ride pass them by and now are just trying to pick up the pieces. Or at least trying to understand why they couldn’t have been one of the lucky few to make it big. What really matters, though—and what is so easy to overlook—is no one party or group is to blame: everyone here probably had something...
Maybe Ariana would just have to wait for a car, they decided, wait until she had finished school and earned good grades and done volunteer work at the hospital. "We needed to get off the roller coaster," says Diane, and even her daughter agrees. "For my parents' generation, to even have a car when you were a teenager was a big deal," Ariana says. "Today, if it's not a Mercedes, it's not special." She pauses. "I think," she observes, "we lost the antimaterialistic philosophy they had...But then, it seems, so did they...