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...same museums, movie theaters or shopping malls. Even on campus, there were places--centers, libraries, exhibits--I had only heard of but had never set foot in. I justified this to myself with my busy school-year schedule, but I still had a lingering feeling that I'm somehow missing out on part of what living at Harvard has to offer...
...town greens across the nation, usually a speech by some prominent member of the community extolling the virtues enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The tradition has more or less died. This year's version in tradition-bound Boston--where the Fourth of July oration has somehow staggered into the 21st century--might explain why. Under the giant portrait of Daniel Webster at Faneuil Hall, an Imperial Potentate of the Shriners was the speaker this year. He called on his audience to volunteer in their communities. As one might expect, it was not a particularly memorable speech...
...then worked the weaknesses in his key adversary's lineup. Although South Africa thought it had the votes necessary to push its bid over the top, Germany managed to woo four delegates from Asia by exploiting their hostility to Blatter over the distribution of voting rights between continents, and somehow managed to persuade New Zealand delegate Charles Dempsey to abstain rather than vote for South Africa as mandated by the region he represented. A tie would have given the casting vote to pro-South Africa Blatter, but Dempsey's abstention gave Germany a 12-11 advantage. Dempsey later intimated that...
Feng shui, for those who have somehow missed its myriad references in pop culture, means wind and water in Chinese. The 3,500-year-old system, once used only by China's Emperor, is based on the idea that landscapes, buildings and even whole cities have hidden zones of energy (qi), which can be manipulated by the shape, size and color of a structure as well as its entrances. A building that allows qi to flow freely is said to have good feng shui, which brings prosperity and success...
Eliza Naumann knows that her fifth-grade class is made up of "students from whom great things should not be expected." Somehow she missed the cut back in the second grade that exalted the TAG (talented and gifted) children and left Eliza and her fellow mediocrities to plod along as best they could. So when her teacher asks Eliza's group to stand up and take part in their first spelling bee, the little girl fully expects to sit down again very quickly. Instead, she wins the competition in her class and then her school. Next come triumphs...