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...able to utter my first words—or perhaps it comes from living in London, where the fans at Tottenham’s White Hart Lane spend the entire 90 minutes of a match in unified song. Either way, I know what it means to root hard for your team...
Since the inauguration of President Barack H. Obama, the nature and structure of American education have elicited unprecedented amounts of discussion, debate, and dialogue. With the president’s policies beginning to take root, fundamental changes—most of which we support—have begun to shape our nation’s public schools and universities. Outside of the White House, however, a series of worrisome events and trends suggests that American education, even at the college and university level, is still subject to a climate of continued anti-intellectualism and a widespread distrust of the student...
...Harvard Community Garden offers much reason for optimism. The sustainability movement has already taken root at Harvard; with the garden—and further initiatives that the project will inspire—we hope it will continue to blossom...
...confesses to the murders, Katurian accepts the fact that he will soon be executed, but desperately struggles to ensure his stories are preserved after his death. The play is told, in part, through reenactments of Katurian’s tales, including a darkly autobiographical vignette that pins the root of his perverse imagination to the experience of hearing his parents torture Michal during their childhood...
...brothers explained that rowing runs deep in the O’Connor family, stemming from their father and taking root in all their lives...