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...professionals.”He is currently completing two scripts to submit to Hollywood producers, an ambitious goal. Most Harvard screenwriters consider it an accomplishment to finish even one screenplay.Garrett D. Morgan ’08, a sophomore transfer from New York University (NYU), had a more uncommon motivation for getting started—he was born into the industry.“It was always a prevalent part of my life,” he says of the movie world. He was born in Los Angeles, Calif., and his father is a cinematographer.But despite the insider connections of Morgan...
...uncommon choice was a delightful one, beginning with a beautiful, pulsating rhythm and finally ending with a fast, light, and high melody. While there were a hesitant few notes from the back and the orchestra was occasionally out-of-tune, the strong performance of the strings and the clearly excellent conducting of Chetel, who gave a large, relieved smile at the piece’s close, more than compensated...
...issues, addressed the range of opinion, and defended his own conclusion,” Morton Keller, co-author of “Making Harvard Modern,” writes in an e-mail. “He set an example and a standard of reason that was (and is) uncommon at the time.”DIVESTMENT: ROUND ONEPerhaps the issue that best characterized his interaction with students was the issue of divestment from American-owned companies with financial ties to Apartheid-era South Africa. Many criticized the University for continuing to invest in companies that implicitly supported a morally...
...audience of the Agassiz Theatre at the opening night performance of the Athena Theater Company’s production of “The Vagina Monologues”. Spontaneous laughter erupted, easing initial trepidations at hearing the remarkably unattractive word “vagina” repeated with such uncommon frequency...
...pediatricians. It's not that my exes were incompetent or unprofessional (although I could have done without the multi-hour waits). It's more that they treated me and my husband with the sort of arrogance and unresponsiveness that, upon consulting with other moms, I'm discovering is not uncommon in parent-ped relationships...