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...Angelica W. Nierras ’09 was busy finishing her fifth plate. While eating a lot isn’t an essential component of Festivus, the roommates also partook in the traditional “Airing of the Grievances.” In the Seinfeld episode, Frank Costanza tells Senifeld’s eccentric neighbor Cosmo Kramer, “At the Festivus dinner you gather your family around and tell them all the ways they have disappointed you over the past year!” Following these instructions, Douglas, Nierras, and their two other roomies happily griped away...
...Golis, a fellow First-year Urban Program leader. Golis suggested that Amutah join the staff of Cambridge Common, the lefty Harvard blog Golis founded in 2005. “He is considerably more radical than I am,” Golis says. “He is willing to tell everyone else to screw off if he doesn’t agree with them. That’s pretty admirable I think.” Amutah’s career-changing moment came on a PBHA trip to Mississippi. Now, he will pursue a Masters of Education degree...
...firmly in the white camp. I’ll still poke fun at it, just as I jest about my father’s English-language faux pas. But her whiteness, or lack of it, is really non-negotiable. It’s whatever her heart and mind tell her, and that’s the way racial ascription should be: bottom up, not top down. I love her in all her non-white glory. It’s no longer the white—err, pink—elephant in the room...
...soon to tell if Sept. 11 will usher in a new era of moral seriousness, an end to the age of anomie and irony. But if Messud’s superb novel is any indication, our inanity and self-delusion may be more enduring than we think...
...hair fool you. Michael E. Kopko ’07 is a people person. Kopko heads an organization with 30 employees, hundreds of customers, and a million dollars in revenue. He’ll talk to you about DormAid if you ask, but he’d much rather tell you about the company executives he works and lives with. “You can use the word ‘cult’ for those who don’t understand us,” Kopko says jokingly of the four “beautiful people” with...