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Fortunately, nostalgia isn't all you get from this book. In the best pieces, Barry explores wider themes, most often the loss of childhood innocence. The "Dancing" piece, for example, changes when the teenage Lynda learns that she dances like a spaz. "All of sudden dancing got hard," she writes, showing herself caught between the desire for and dread of carefree dancing. Told in a vaguely chronological order, each vignette explores a different aspect of the change from childhood to the alienated world of the teenager. Particularly vivid is Barry's portrait of her mother, a Filipino immigrant with...
Veneziano said that with the new webpage will allow Harvard athletics to reach a wider audience. The school’s old site averaged 1,000 visitors a day during the fall season. The new site attracted 4,000 hits on its first day of public operation...
...OCSN site has an number of improvements over Harvard’s old athletic webpage. These features include a larger selection of photos from a wider range of sports, online polls and webcasting of Harvard games broadcast on radio...
...Scuds into Israeli cities - as he did 39 times during the Gulf War. In so doing, the U.S. hopes to allay the prewar jitters of Arab leaders, who fear that an Israeli attack on Iraq could inflame their own populations, destabilize their regimes and perhaps draw them into a wider...
...Augusta National is the site of golf’s annual Masters Invitational tournament, and Weill is the first member to speak out against the club’s policy. Weill’s courage should serve as an example to other members of the club and to the wider golf community, who should emulate his call...