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...identity Liles is used to assuming. She began twirling at age nine, after trying out dance and gymnastics. Until coming to Harvard, she spent an hour each week with a private coach, perfecting her technique and learning to twirl as many as three batons, a pair of special twirling knives, and burning baton.For the uninitiated, baton twirlers perform a coordinated routine that combines dance and gymnastics, while simultaneously tossing a weighted metal rod. Twirlers often perform with competitive marching bands, most popular at large state universities and high schools in the midwest and south.Liles’ story began among...
...similar lack of enthusiasm will likely do him in. So that leaves Charlie Bucket. With nearly all the alternatives so revolting, disconcerting, or unfeasible, Willy Wonka and the American voting public will turn to anyone they can like. Huckabee is far from perfect, and there is certainly nothing special about Charlie—but look at the others! Just like Bill Clinton in 1992, Huckabee is likely to become the consensus candidate just because there isn’t vehement opposition to him. Those who are worried about his candidacy, namely economic interest groups like Americans for Tax Reform...
...becomes a much trickier task when the government’s own agents betray our ideals and then escape censure by destroying the evidence. If the American electorate is plagued with apathy and ignorance, we need not look to sources as remote as changing technology and the rise of special interests. Rather, the demonstrated disdain of the CIA for the ideals of the United States, the rights of its citizens, and international law would appear to be a much more direct cause of cynicism. Even as the agency moralizes on its website, extolling “personal accountability?...
...focus the entire game,” junior guard Andrew Pusar said. “Given the disparity between the first and second half, we just need to play with the intensity we did in the first half. If we carry that over, we can do some really special things.” Lehigh had no trouble finding the bottom of the net in the second half. The Mountain Hawks found their way back into contention with an 18-6 run to take a 40-39 lead and erase Harvard’s once double-digit advantage...
...Drama concentration,” Kopit says.In the chaotic environment of the drama scene, Kopit says he was able to grow academically as a writer in the liberal arts setting, not focusing solely on drama. While some current students opt to create their own drama program via a special concentration, many who are deeply involved in drama prefer keeping their academic life separate from the theatrical.Literature concentrator Kara E. Kaufman ’08, outgoing president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, is blunt in her opinion about a potential drama concentration: “I would definitely...