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...Maciejowski was laid off from her job at an investment bank at the end of 2008, she cleaned out her desk, retreated to her Venice Beach, Calif., apartment and started sprucing up her resume. Then the 33-year-old set aside some of her severance package and arranged to spend February in artsy San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Her goals for the trip were simple: to take an immersive Spanish class, do some painting, experience a new culture and generally relax. Says the self-described Blackberry addict: "I needed to get away to disconnect, recharge and regroup for the next...
...Kindle is not cheap. With money being tight, it may be that older, affluent consumers are much more likely to spend $359 than the younger, unemployed people who will graduate from college this year. The e-books are expensive, too. A copy of Master Your Metabolism: The 3 Diet Secrets to Naturally Balancing Your Hormones for a Hot and Healthy Body! costs $9.99. People under 50 are not likely to buy that book anyway. Buying a magazine is a better deal. An issue of The Reader's Digest for Kindle costs only $1.25, but that is a publication for older...
...Student Events Fund is an outstanding program. It allows students who are on financial aid to buy tickets to campus events that they otherwise could not afford and brings the Harvard community closer together by allowing all a chance to spend time together regardless of financial means. The new SEF website, much simpler to navigate, now makes it even easier for students to participate...
...which is part of their tradition, but in some ways is sort of limiting.” After graduation, Kapusta intends to take a year off before returning to the NEC to finish his Masters in music. He believes that the year, which he plans to spend studying music and French in Paris, will be a well-used break. “I’m still pretty young, and I’m not one of those singers with an extremely mature voice at this point,” he says. “It is really good...
...year’s recipients of the Jonathan Levy Award, which recognizes “the most promising actor or actress at the University,” it’s clear that her genetic predisposition for the stage paid off. Growing up in New York City, Sherman would spend long hours after school with her mother in the costume shop. When she started high school at St. Ann’s in Brooklyn, she began taking acting classes and performing in shows. When she got to Harvard, though, Sherman decided not to participate in the theater scene. She opted...