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Carswell continued to shine in the outdoor season, finishing second in the 5,000 at Heps, and 10th in the same event at the NCAA Championships...
...Harvard that continues to exist in the reality of its students and not merely in the myth of its memory? Sometimes I feel that the true Harvard only comes alive at night. The tourists are gone, the air is hushed, and the lights from the first-year dorms shine in the night--from the middle of the Yard, the lights could even be glistening candles, not halogen lamps. This is the image of Harvard that brought me here: a Harvard of un-bricked fireplaces, dusty books buried in Widener and Houghton Libraries and benches dedicated to alumnae in Radcliffe Yard...
...love, honor and obey. Love, full of sacrifice and hardship, to the point of risking your life and taking other people's lives in your hands, in the belly of your bomber. Honor, through every large and small token of respect: keep your hair short, press your shirt, shine your shoes, salute your superior. And above all, obey without question even the rules that break your heart...
Several of the minor players shine in their roles. Georgia Shao-Chi Lee '98 is consistently likable, sensual and amusing as Moon Beauty, the prostitute who takes in Hawk and Little Jade. Chan is quite good as the tortured, Byronic Wang Kuilong. Li, as Chief Yang, wavers between a delightfully arrogant rendition of the part (as he struts about unfolding and snapping shut a large gold fan) and a problematic tendency to stumble over his lines. And Patrick Wang, who plays several small parts--most notably Grandpa Guo, the New Park gardener who first finds Hawk and tells...
...tough when you're on the same staff as Tasha Cupp, your classmate and superhuman lefthanded pitcher. But this past weekend, it was Brown's day to shine...