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...immediate problems facing house residents such as overcrowding, sewage leakage, heating, and ventilation cannot be ignored. Fortunately, it seems that the administration is already mindful of many of these concerns. We hope that they continue to listen to student input, and take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity to transform student life at Harvard...
...something entirely different had happened. At the moment when Frederick had begun to feel his anger transform into something like ambivalence or even happiness, an image had flashed through his mind. Despite the visual feast which lay before him–the flickering light, the bejeweled tortoise on Felicity’s dressing table, the nude voluptuousness of his wife–it was a vision of that stable boy, shirtless, standing knee deep in a lake, playing a violin, which had appeared before him. It was this image above anything else which had brought him to the brink...
...weekly newspaper, a monthly magazine, and a blog. Duque, The Voice’s publisher, said his new project hopes to address a “disconnect between what people are interested in reading and what is being published.” “[It aims to] transform old media and update the current journalistic model to be more responsive to its readership,” he added. Miran Pavic ’09, the editor-in-chief of The Voice, agreed that the concept of the project is radically different from existing campus publications and media groups...
...next day, addressing a gathering of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, Obama cited the same facility as the first of the next generation of American ingenuity. "We're going to transform shuttered steel mills to make windmills, plants that have closed will make solar panels," he said. "These kinds of jobs are bringing new life back to places that have been hard hit in recent decades - places like Fairless Hills in Bucks County, where the old U.S. Steel plant is now being used to make wind turbines...
...major face of Taiwan's new politics. The other is his political associate Ma Ying-jeou, the big winner of the March 22 presidential election. Ma's victory is a landmark development that has the potential to not just change Taiwan but transform its fraught relationship with China. For decades after its leadership fled to Taiwan in 1949, the KMT regarded the island merely as a transitional base from which to reclaim the mainland. The KMT, an outsider, ruled Taiwan in an authoritarian manner, and was out of touch with local folk, who identified themselves as Taiwanese, not Chinese...