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...American states, including a full quarter of Maine's residential summer camps, have reportedly been hit by the bug known worldwide as H1N1. Across the Atlantic, Britain's National Health Service spent most of July recording 100,000 new cases a week. Health officials in both countries were struck by a trend they regard as unusual and troubling: a flu outbreak in the middle of summer...
...belatedly noted the masochistic schoolgirl posters on the wall, and made my way across the road to a gay sex shop, where I struck up a conversation with the manager...
...them for an evening. In contrast, for a year I’ve neglected to visit close high school friends who live nearby. When I exchange updates with folks abroad, no matter how long it’s been since we’ve spoken, I’m struck by how easily we can pick up where we left...
...mentor teacher and I taught Othello to our Prep for AP English class and, in my rereading of the tragedy, I found one character who struck me as unmistakably familiar. This one character has knowledge, power, and smarts, knows when to show sympathy, or when to march up indignation. He is the supreme politician. This one character struck me as devoutly Harvardian in his understanding and use of human weakness. I could envision him campaigning amongst important friends for student office, dashing up to an extra-curricular office in Hilles, or whispering knowingly with a TF after section. This...
Though he began his career as a soloist for the famed Martha Graham company in 1939, he struck out on his own in 1944, the beginning of his almost 50-year collaboration--both professional and personal--with composer John Cage. He strayed from Graham's romantic, balletic style and instead emphasized sudden changes of direction and insisted that the dance moves, musical score, set design and costumes all be prepared independently of one another...