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...maybe—just maybe—this swan song is a tad premature. Although law school certainly beckons in a few short months, maybe I need not part with my fascination with sports just yet. I was pleased when the Dean of Admissions wrote on my letter that I may want to consider taking some “Sports and the Law” courses. I guess my dedication to, and love of, athletics was apparent in the application. I think I may just take him up on that offer...
...laments the lack of a hero in her own family: her dad never went to prison, not once! But soon her uncle is released from jail and regales her with stories of suffering. She sleeps with the swan that he fashioned out of bread in his cell. During the day, she and her friends make up "torture games" to play in the street. But within days, her uncle is taken back to prison and executed. The family friend is found drowned in his bathtub. Satrapi's non-religious French school is shut down and she is sent...
...sniper rifle where it's one shot, one kill," says Wachter. There was silence in the cockpit as crew members handled their assigned tasks. "When we got the word that it was a priority leadership target, you get kind of an adrenaline rush," says Lieut. Colonel Fred Swan, senior weapons-system officer on the plane. "But then you fall back to your original training that says, 'Hey, let's get the job done...
When I first took up the horn, I liked classical music and classical music only; indeed, the idea of someone, or specifically my entire seventh grade class, who preferred Green Day to the lilting “Swan Lake,” appalled me. Little did I then know that one day the Rolling Stones’ insistent strumming guitars would seem to echo my heartbeat, or that I would find as much poetry in Lou Reed’s tired voice as in a Mahler symphony. Since arriving at Harvard, and I now suppose throughout my life, music...
...using his girlfriend's features, actually shows a human making love with a god. And not just any god, but the big guy, Zeus, who took the form of a shower of gold to seduce Danaë. (For Zeus this was normal: he liked to dress up as a swan, bull, cloud or whatever when wooing the ladies.) If such godly shenanigans leave you cold, you can concentrate on a detail like landscape or jewelry, and be amazed by the different ways Titian handles it. You can look past Bacchus' right knee and enjoy the view...