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When she was in middle school, Woo already knew she wanted a quality education. She won a scholarship to Phillips Exeter Academy in eighth grade and attended the boarding school until her junior year, when the stress of finding her place in a wealthy world??a K-Mart brand-clad teenager bobbing in a sea of students in J-Crew and Northface—led her to drugs...
...having portrayed her in the 1996 movie “Kansas City,” Allen has a history of affinity for Williams. “All of her work...is a great inspiration for me. All of her stuff gives me a great sense of place in the world??as a young woman musician especially,” she says. Noah L. Nathan ’09, student manager of the Monday Jazz Band, also notes the bond between Allen and Williams. “Mary Lou Williams is one of the pioneering women in jazz?...
...album, “Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant,” starts off in a dark place. In the intro, Jean tells us over the sound of a scratching pen that “a lot of things have changed; the whole world??s in panic.” Wyclef has consistently tried to take socially conscious hip-hop into the mainstream, a worthy cause. This album’s no exception and it seems like he’s on a mission to change the world. But the messages Wyclef tackles prove too much...
Harvard students today engage in policy discussions on endemic social problems, operate a homeless shelter, and dedicate entire years to service abroad in the poorest parts of the world??all without the encouragement of their deans and professors or the lure of a desk at Goldman Sachs. To call this an inferior mode of social participation to the occupation of a building seems blinkered and unreasonable. The actions of current students are just different responses to a very different world...
Fresh snow and slick streets didn’t deter a large audience from attending the Monday night premiere of a documentary about the Aga Khan—the spiritual leader of millions of the world??s Shi’ite Ismaili Muslims—at the Kennedy School of Government...