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...synopsis should make you cry. God Sleeps in Rwanda (female survivors of African genocide) is up against The Mushroom Club (the deformed children of the Hiroshima A bomb). The Death of Kevin Carter investigates the life and suicide of a Pulitzer-winning, daredevil South African photographer. A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin is a biography of the writer of 40s inspirational radio scripts...
...Pain’s “Jump Around” blared in the room, the two faced off to a near stalemate. The decisive black to A6 finisher, played with the very last available piece, left the crowd in awe. Despite falling short at the absolute cusp of triumph, Camm was content with her prize. “This is a moment I’ve wanted for a long time, and I couldn’t have lost to a greater opponent,” she said. Newman, staying true to the jovial mood of the night...
...perverted the Games have become. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympics, originally envisioned that athletes would recognize that it was most important “not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.” How far we have progressed, in this age of medal tallies, doped-up athletes, and corrupt judges. Coubertin’s dream, conceived more than a century ago, was twofold: that the Games...
...reform the undergraduate curriculum, and we must devote ourselves more assiduously than ever to good teaching and advising. Together, we must work to make Harvard the institution it can and should be—a place of higher learning where critical debate coincides with mutual respect, where moral values triumph over market values, and where transparency replaces secrecy. We have a better chance of accomplishing all of this now that Larry Summers is gone...
...respectively, led Harvard in scoring in a 23-point rout of Columbia on Feb. 3. Attacking from the outside made for easy points on the inside, with Tay tallying four assists on the night. In the game against Cornell, authority in the post led to the 80-71 Crimson triumph. Rollins took it upon herself to close out what became a nail-biter in the second half, finishing with 19 points and nine rebounds against the Big Red. The powerhouse pair of Rollins and Moretzsohn freed up the perimeter for he outside shot, as Harvard went 8-of-12 behind...