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...teenagers are sipping, swirling, sniffing and sometimes guzzling bottles in a gymnasium. It's the second annual Soweto Wine and Brandy Festival, designed to encourage the nation's black middle class to embrace wine. Such consumers splurge on luxury cars, clothes and homes, but stick with traditional beer and spirits. "There are at least 10 wine festivals per year in Johannesburg, and you can count on one hand the number of people of color who attend them," says Marilyn Cooper, who runs the local branch of the Cape Wine Academy and is one of the festival's organizers. "We have...
...between the professional and college ranks in football. In college, even as the athletes toil to line the NCAA coffers and pad the bank accounts of the universities they attend, they are held to stricter standards of conduct than their professional counterparts, all in the name of the amateur spirit...
...really like is that it draws the full range of society,” says Brinkman. “You get your blue-rinsed geriatric retirees who are there because they remember Chaucer positively and your hip-hop heads next to them....I feel like that really represents the spirit of ‘The Canterbury Tales,’ because Chaucer’s pilgrims are a really diverse group.” Brinkman says he and the English department are trying to reschedule an appearance at Harvard later in the year, but if you can?...
...historical curiosity, but not a compelling reason to pursue a career in politics.Current political figures, of both parties, often attribute their involvement in politics to the inspirational example set by JFK. We have no comparable figure today, and no number of videos or Kennedy posters can remove the spirit of Camelot from the historical freezer, microwave it, and feed to students. We know we’re living in an age of Foley, not Kennedy.This, it should be made clear, is by no means a criticism of the IOP, which offers students an amazing array of resources and opportunities?...
This type of reticence is not what recruiters are looking for. The spirit is better enshrined in Aleksey Vayner’s declaration in his cover letter, “Impossible is just someone’s opinion.” How ironic that this gung-ho attitude, even if expressed with slightly more modesty in the typical Harvard student, is used as a rallying cry by those who would consign themselves to such a dreary desk...