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Harvard's fortunes are subject to the whim of the corn crop, which has been decimated by high wind and hail in the last two years. "There's many a farmer that has to stand out there every night and literally guard their field--pary for the hail not to come," says Brent Williamson, principal for the 4th through 12th grades at the Harvard Public Schools...
...real losses in being paralyzed," he says, "is the absence of spontaneity. You can't do things like go for a cup of coffee on a whim. Whenever I leave the house, it's a huge operation. I have the nurses. The van has to be equipped with an oxygen tank, emergency meds and an Ambu bag, which is like a balloon used to pump air into someone manually. We had an episode when I was coming back from New York one time in the winter, and the vent failed just as we were coming up the driveway...
...Once you leave it up to the whim of one individual, then it's a slippery slope," he said...
Some people, perhaps, but not Thomas. At the suggestion of eventual First Class Marshall Peter Cahn, Thomas decided to run for Class Marshall. "He said, 'It'll be fun!' or something Peterish like that," Thomas explains. "I just did it on a whim," she says, although she ended up Third Marshall. She has taken the role seriously, however, Cahn says. When Thomas and Peter were looking for help finding a Class Day speaker, Thomas would do almost anything to get support. "She knows how to put on the right short skirt to get something done," Cahn says. "'Is this...
...tale of Mat, a young woman who grows up alone in a circus after her mother abandons her. Mat is the roustabout of the title, a circus hand engaged in the unglamorous task of setting up the big top. It is a job Chalfoun knows from experience. On a whim, the dance major answered a help-wanted ad and worked on a tent crew for three years. She says, "I learned that I didn't really have any limits unless I put them on myself...