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...past year, celebrities like Oprah G. Winfrey and Madonna have come under fire for the elaborate girls’ secondary schools they have built in South Africa and Malawi respectively; grassroots activists assert that, in building such western-style schools, both women fall short of maximizing their potential for change. Unsurprisingly, celebrities and corporations capable of undertaking large-scale projects such as these “leadership academies” turn up their noses at the more localized efforts of these same grass-roots critics. Such antagonism is at once unnecessary and counter-productive. Each type of school affects...

Author: By Elizabeth C. Cowan | Title: The Importance of Educating Girls | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

...Cambridge clientele is also refreshing for Petrovato, who had been accosted by New Age fanatics at locations in Western Mass. and informed that he had had a “violent birth” and “needed to be channeled...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman and Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Specialty Bookstores: Stories from the Square | 5/12/2010 | See Source »

...Abram D. Kaplan ’10, the most important inspiration for his writing comes not from movies or from popular contemporary books. He says that Western philosophy bears most on his writing...

Author: By Tyler G. Hale, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Writers Reflect | 5/10/2010 | See Source »

...Right now, I could trace a number of my concerns and images to Plato and Machiavelli and Homer,” Abram Kaplan says. “In general, I would say that I draw heavily from what’s called the Western canon...

Author: By Tyler G. Hale, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Writers Reflect | 5/10/2010 | See Source »

...team’s struggles in the wind won’t dampen its season too much, though, because the Crimson managed to qualify for the ICSA Dinghy National Championships with its top-five finish in last weekend’s Western Semi Finals in Seattle. While the weekend’s struggles may have slowed momentum slightly, the Fowle Trophy also gave Harvard a chance to continue to learn before it hits the water on the biggest stage...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sailing Falls Short on Day Two, Does Not Make Team Nationals | 5/10/2010 | See Source »

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