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...semi-autobiographical, self-reflexive tone weaves itself throughout the play. But Sun’s solo play is, above all, a tremendous and exhausting feat of acting. She throws herself into a bevvy of characters: The high-strung principal Mrs. Kennedy, concerned only with the school??€™s statewide Regents scores and the federal grants that depend on them; the abrasive security guard, who sends students home if they dare sport so much as a metal belt buckle; Sun’s landlord, who believes that sending all students to Catholic school would solve the problems of the American...
...Initiative, which made attendance at the College free for students whose families earned less than $40,000 (later raised to $60,000). But with the full four-year cost of a Harvard education approaching $200,000, many families in the upper-middle class struggle to send their children to school??€”a point underscored by surveys conducted by the Financial Aid Office. By limiting the cost for many of these families to 10 percent of income, Harvard is helping to ensure that no student should have to choose to go to a different school due to financial considerations...
...served on the steering committee for the Freshman Outdoor Program for two years, in addition to running in the Boston Marathon her sophomore and junior year and playing rugby her freshman year. Stenson says her activities in college are a complete change from the ones she did in high school??€”freestyle skiing, waterpolo, and volunteering with an EMS team. But one thing about Stenson has not changed—her reputation as a daredevil. Stenson said that she has broken 13 bones, has had nine stitches, and has had 20 teeth pulled. “I come...
...Harvard (TECH) to establish the challenge. Segal said it is the College’s first large-scale business and innovation competition. Segal said that I^3 places Harvard on par with other renowned business plan competitions including MIT’s 100K Entrepreneurship Competition and the Harvard Business School??€™s Business Plan Contest. What distinguishes I^3, Segal said, is its undergraduate and multi-track focus. Students from a variety of concentrations and interests are encouraged to compete for cash grants worth up to $10,000 by submitting business plan proposals in one of four tracks...
...tone of today’s politics. The book outlines six steps the country needs to take in order to return to its core values of equality and opportunity, Kamarck said. But other panelists questioned whether optimism is likely to promote change. David Gergen, the director of the Kennedy School??€™s Center for Public Leadership, said Al Gore ’69 has successfully used the threat of impending disaster to publicize the cause of tackling global warming. “You have to create a burning platform and the sense that we are going to sink...