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...hope is their students will go to college and ask for the [Celtic] courses, demand them,” Ford says. “I’m hoping for a grass-roots swell of interest...
Finally, it may be possible to give a kid a comic again. It may even be necessary. After a long dearth of quality new comics for younger readers, a burgeoning swell of books has begun to bubble into bookstores. One of the breakers in this tide has been the series of "Little Lit" books, edited by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly. Aimed at readers of "all ages," the third volume, "It Was a Dark and Silly Night," has just arrived along with a "Little Vampire" series from France. So TIME.comix found its old blankee and went under the covers with...
PBHA has approximately 1,800 volunteers and serves 10,000 people. The ranks of Harvard volunteers swell when groups outside the scope of PBHA, like Project HEALTH and HAND, are counted. Harvard gets a lot of mileage out of its volunteer ambassadors in terms of warm and fuzzy public relations. It’s sometimes unclear how much Harvard gives back to students volunteering their time. What is clear to volunteers is what they get back themselves. Public service affects course choices and vocational choices after graduation. It can mean frantic late night phone calls from teenage mentees and finding...
...more and more people trickled in to see the experimental hardcore duo, one could feel the anticipation swell. Where would Lightning Bolt, notorious for playing on a venue’s floor instead of its stage, set up? And just how loud is “loud” anyhow...
Twenty-one years ago, a quiet young Englishman named Philip Beale visited Java and fell in love with a ship. To be precise, it was a picture of a ship, a sculptural relief of a jaunty schooner, its bow thrust upward by a swell, carved some 1,200 years ago at Borobudur, the magnificent Buddhist monument not far from Yogyakarta. Roaming across the Indonesian islands on a grant to study traditional ships, Beale had read that sailors from the Malay Archipelago regularly crossed the Indian Ocean, and even established colonies in East Africa, centuries before Borobudur was built...