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...Still, the ubiquitous yellow family from Springfield has consumed the lion’s share of Jean and Reiss’s careers...
Whether from Accra, Ghana, or Springfield, Mass., the Ron Brown Scholarship winners all took winding paths to the Harvard Coop. On the third floor of the bookstore yesterday afternoon, the scholarship winners spoke of the racial discrimination, financial hardships, and other challenges they faced prior to college. The $40,000 Ron Brown Scholarships honor exceptionally motivated and academically accomplished African American high school seniors. Winners provided a snapshot of their individual journeys in an anthology of essays bound in the hard-cover book, “I Have Risen,” which went on sale in late March...
...itself, but the way you feel after using it really intensely for a long time. Suddenly you know the answer to everything. I used to be one of those people who was going through the reference section of the local library. I used to phone up Merriam-Webster in Springfield, Massachusetts - by the way, they loved it - and ask a question about a neologism or something. Now you just burn out on knowing the answer to everything. This is what God must be like knowing everything. How many times have I been in a restaurant and wanted to clap...
...second act could not match the vitality of the first. The dancers nevertheless displayed impressive talent. The performers in “Spirit, Rhythm, and Soul,” choreographed by Liz C. Michaud ’09, moved gracefully to the music of Aretha Franklin, Kanye West, Dusty Springfield, and Ray Charles. The contrast between the soul music and the ballet-infused choreography made for a beautiful piece that was complemented by warm peach lighting and simple costumes of black and pink. The second act also featured EXP, the Expressions Dance Company’s audition-only troupe...
...like men started speaking French. I told them I didn’t speak French. They did not say anything and continued speaking French, I believe about the myriad meanings of the Vagina Monologues. One of them was knitting.I went to bed shortly thereafter, pondering if going through the Springfield bus terminal the next day at six in the morning would be either the best of times, or the worst of times.There is something so cloying about the irony implicit in the Harvard metrosexual intellectual or Final Club bon vivant, which is refreshingly lacking at Amherst. People aggressively don?...