Word: wente
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...reunion tradition.” Twenty years ago, in 1989, the class of 1984 was the first class to integrate pubic service into fifth class reunions, said Anne S. Holtzworth ’89, one of the five co-chairs of the Reunion Committee. Alumni went throughout Boston and Cambridge doing various volunteer activities with City Year...
...Carter and Brown eventually started a band of their own that they called “Crimson Bluegrass,” and the two spent many of their Saturday mornings playing on their WHRB show, “Living Traditions in Bluegrass.”After she and Carter went to audition at Harvard Square’s Nameless Coffeehouse, their audition sheet was returned with a note: “No way could these people be Harvard freshmen”.But despite Brown’s obvious talent, her academic workload belied the possibility of a future in music...
...hours hunting down the creatures, and, according to his sister, he was “very successful at it.”On a trip to Sri Lanka, when Losos was a senior in high school, the family had a layover in Paris. While the rest of the family went to historical sites in the city, Losos went to the zoo.Though he frequents the Bahamas for his field research, his sister said that he spends no time sunning himself on the beach. Thus, it is a family joke that Lasos was the subject of a National Enquirer inquiry into government...
...because a sudden increase in international food prices had pushed 100 million more people around the world into hunger, on top of the 850 million others–mostly in rural South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa–who were already suffering from chronic malnutrition before prices went up. Yet none of the invited speakers at Harvard’s session on food had much interest in this larger problem, or any academic standing to address it. One was a celebrity restaurant owner from San Francisco, the second led an organization called Slow Food USA, and the third...
...vast umbrella everything from infrastructure to the creation of “green” jobs. Its very immensity required some of the same good ol’ American optimism that had won Obama his mandarin’s perch. Flood the economy with enough money, the premise went, and we can all float our little rafts to the golden shores of prosperity. But despite the plan’s elephantine nature—and its bizarre twist on trickle-down—Democrats had a tough time selling it to Republicans. Not everyone was as willing to take...