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...community held a vigil yesterday in Meyers’ memory, where Teegarden and a handful of Meyers’ friends told stories about his compassionate, offbeat personality. Hillel Rabbi Akiva Herzfeld delivered a religiously-focused eulogy, in which he characterized Meyers as a “beautiful” spirit. He said the death of Meyers—who was studying classics at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences—was a “loss to the world.” “Isaac was a person whose life in this world was filled with acts...
...BATMAN In the past, a katana, a Japanese sword, was a samurai's soul. The warriors may be long gone, but the samurai spirit lives on--particularly among Japanese professional baseball players. Take the Seattle Mariners' All-Star center fielder Ichiro Suzuki. Between games, Ichiro gives his bat the katana treatment: keeping it protected in a sealed aluminum case. After every game, he takes it to his locker and shows his gratitude for its service by going through the ritual of cleaning...
...team leader. “Shelly’s the type of captain that, as we’re heading into Cornell to open Ivies, she’s going to go in there and be a bulldog and fight.” It is not all about spirit and tenacity, though. Ability matters, too. To stay fresh, Madick spent time in the off-season working with Allard—a former college pitcher at Michigan—to develop a deeper arsenal.“She lived a lot on her curve last year and teams are going...
...semester, but when that did not happen this spring, the money—which accounts for three to four percent of the UC’s semester budget—stayed in the general grants fund. Flores said she hopes the money will now be used in the same spirit as the party fund: to improve campus social life. She added that freshmen will also benefit from the HoCos’ increased budgets because they might be more apt to attend House events this spring after receiving housing assignments tomorrow. Adams HoCo Co-Chair Omar M. Abdelsamad...
...success stories among refugee groups in recent decades. But no less important, perhaps, it has offered a possibility to many others on a planet where there are, by some counts, as many as 33 million official and unofficial refugees. By showing how Tibet can exist internally, in spirit and imagination, even if it is barely visible on the map, the Dalai Lama has been suggesting to Palestinians, Kurds and Uighurs that they can maintain a cultural community even if they have lost their territory. Communities can be linked not by common soil so much as by common ground, a common...