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...first minor problem came along when we found out that the party had actually been on Saturday night and that tonight our friend was going on a romantic date with his girlfriend. We sat mournfully in our common room where one of our roommates was having something of a singles’ soiree, and we asked everyone present if they had friends who had parties off-campus. At last, as 11 o’clock rolled around, we decided to just...
...stream of shocking pictures of earthquake victims. In one picture, a Haitian teenager lay on a thin blanket weighed down by large rocks in a makeshift hospital for the wounded; in another, a street was flooded waist-deep with bodies of the dead pushed aside to make room for cars. PIH made the suffering of Haitian earthquake victims manifest, and immediate, in order to inspire empathy...
...table; the moment I’m within the threshold of Ticknor Lounge, two school officials ask me, monotone, for the first letter of my last name. I say “C.” I look around. The place is filled with sunny silence. Dotted around the room, among the couches and deep-cushioned chairs, there are students with their heads down, some scribbling furiously, others underlining passages on the pages in front of them. There are boxes of pizza in one of the corners. I’ve found myself at the 2010 Financial Aid Thankathon Open...
...over winter break. He and his family organize an annual banquet in New York City to meet and keep in touch with new and old Tarr Scholars, a group made up of Harvard students on financial aid from New York or Maine. I was the youngest person in the room by far, my peer scholarship recipients either out of town or otherwise busy, and I felt out of place. I talked to an I-banker about math courses. I scanned the room...
...Defense Ministry war room, intelligence officers drew up the cast of characters. For foreign flavor, the fake mission chief was given an Italian accent and the exotic name of Russi. His phony deputy would be an Arabic speaker from the Middle East while a third team member, who had lived in Australia, would pretend to hail from Brisbane. Other impersonators included a doctor, three nurses and a reporting team from Venezuela's left-wing Telesur station...