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More than 20 years ago, when she was still a lecturer in law on the campus north of Harvard Yard, Elizabeth Bartholet left the confines of Cambridge for the muggy warmth of Lima, Peru.It was the fall of 1985, and she wanted to adopt a child. With little more than 40 $100 bills tucked into the bottom of her shoes, she boarded the airplane.But after she landed, Bartholet discovered over her three-month stay that many laws designed to help children were actually hurting them. Today, her first adopted son, Christopher, is 21 years old. But the laws handicapping...
...specific vision, only this general yet urgent endorsement of unification. But the reader should forgive Mak this halfhearted attempt to pull a foreign-affairs moral from his history lesson. The book is not a call for unity, but a call for peace. It is a testament to Mak's warmth and skill as a writer that even in a chronicle of unrelenting barbarity he has portrayed a humanity worth saving...
...also a Crimson editor, and sophomore Rachel Gottlieb all lost in straight sets in the bottom three spots. “We just kind of ran out of steam a little bit,” Graham said. “We couldn’t quite handle the warmth and the pressure of the situation.”HARVARD 6, UC DAVIS 1Harvard sailed past UC Davis on Friday, beating the Aggies, 6-1. The Crimson easily won its first four matches en route to a stress-free victory.The No. 2 doubles team of Mukundan and Brook started...
Leaders of Harvard’s cultural organizations view their groups in terms of two ideal values: community and comfort. Students look to these groups as a source of warmth and familiarity in a Harvard campus that can seem overwhelming. Lee describes the BSA as “a support network for all students, in an otherwise isolating and cold place.” Likewise, Jimmy Zhao ’08, co-president of the Asian American Association (AAA), says one of the club’s goals “is to provide a community for our members...
Currier House residents who battled their way home to the Quad during last Friday night’s snow expecting warmth and shelter instead faced the foul odor of a sewage leak. On Friday afternoon, one of the House’s primary draining pumps shut down, causing a build-up of pressure that burst a sewage pipe in the House’s Lower Main hallway. Since the hall links all resident towers to the dining hall and to the House’s main entrance, the sewage puddle cut residents of Daniels Tower off from their rooms...