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...listening to those words. About 30 people had gathered around the John Harvard statue on a cold March afternoon to listen to these narratives—read aloud by Harvard students, written by their unnamed, undocumented peers—as part of a National Coming Out Day for undocumented youth. Michael’s story was not there...
...over three million undocumented youth in the U.S. under the age of 24, many of whom were brought here by their families as children. The event’s sponsors, Harvard College Act On A Dream and the Massachusetts Student Immigrant Movement, are part of a broader movement for the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act—better known as The DREAM Act—which promises a conditional path to legal residence for undocumented high school graduates who serve at least two years in the military or complete two years of higher education...
...film. “I did not explicitly set out to give the film a sociological label,” he said. “I primarily wanted to tell a story around the themes that were important to me—theatre, first love, the energy of youth.” Kechiche added that the specific social milieu was due to autobiographical reasons, and that any sociological or political nuances the film might deliver have been subconscious from his part...
...film centers on a nostalgic trip to a ski resort, where the group hopes to relive the bacchanalian days of their youth. “We were young, we had momentum,” laments Cusack’s character. Surprised to find the entire town rundown and decrepit, they console themselves with alcohol, drugs, and a mysterious hot tub. In the morning, they wake up in 1986, which the film recreates in painstaking detail. There are a number of funny references to Poison, “Miami Vice,” Jheri curls, Ronald Reagan, and when MTV actually...
Every poetic career follows a different trajectory. Yeats’ style evolved and improved throughout his long career; Wordsworth composed his greatest works in his youth, but continued writing through his old age. The deterioration of poetic talent must be one of the greatest fears of an aging poet. Although Derek Walcott—who turned eighty this past January—is a Nobel Laureate and the author of over twenty published volumes of poetry, the dread of losing his poetic ability permeates “White Egrets,” his newest collection. He writes...