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...other disaster overseas. And four months after Hurricane Katrina, the donations approach $3 billion. This got me to thinking about the nature of giving, and what makes for temporary relief vs. lasting change. Sudden disasters get the big headlines, but day after day other tragedies of avoidable dimensions unfold: the one child who dies of malaria in Africa every 29 seconds, the one person who is infected with HIV every 6.4 seconds, the 8 million who die every year because they are too poor to stay alive. And who is proving most effective in figuring out how to eradicate those...
...often become dirty. Character attacks, fraudulent spending and funding, Watergate, dead men voting, and hanging chads—all these issues and many more have marred the public’s faith in the election process. Harvard is not Washington. Yet, those watching the Undergraduate Council (UC) Presidential Campaign unfold over the last few weeks might never have guessed they were on a college campus and not in a swing state. This year’s campaign degenerated from a discussion on student issues into a spectacle that, if anything, left students more jaded than they already were...
...change in his trajectory came shortly after he graduated from Berkeley in 1988. Seidel traveled to Germany in order to learn the language and to continue training as a classics scholar. While in Berlin, Seidel watched the events of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre unfold on both East German and West German television...
...connection and must listen uncomfortably to Rafi disclose intimate details in therapy (e.g. “His penis is so beautiful. I just want to knit it a hat”). Once all the other characters catch on, comedic chaos ensues. But if only the cleverly knitted premise would unfold itself a little faster! With the movie’s primary thematic focus on Rafi and Dave’s relationship, the therapist plot line takes up far too much time and leaves the viewer wondering why it occupied nearly half the movie, when it was merely a spring board...
...serious questions, and not about O’Hagan’s arm or Dawson’s health. Wasn’t Derek Davis’ 72-yard rush on the first place of the game a little unexpected—a little surreal—to watch unfold? “We have a crash blitz called into their reverse, and our guy misses the tackle and he takes it to the house,” Murphy said. “It was just plays here and there which made the football game, and certainly that...