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I would like to give my kudos to Jack Gilbride, a seven year old boy that saved his family from a two-alarm fire that burned their house down. Read about it here (Boston.com).

While searching for “using DLC on another wii” in the Rockband forums, I came across this message (click to zoom):

I want to highlight a comment made in my linking of the “Harvard Disadvantage” article. This comment is from Miguel Garcia, the student that was referenced in the article. It is a very insightful comment that I should dedicate to its own post, as it might not be discovered in the comments view. The following (italics) are all his words:

I am writing to address comments and express my concerns regarding a recent article published by the Boston Globe in which I was featured titled “The Harvard Disadvantage”. First of all, allow me to admit that although I believe the article to be rooted in legitimate arguments, I found it to be one-sided, misrepresentative, and ultimately counterproductive. I was asked to share my opinion regarding the issue because of my involvement with the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, particularly my involvement with issues concerning income and social class on campus.

Personally, I was disgruntled with the author’s self-constructed image of me. The author’s decision, for example, to use my expressed interest in writing for the Harvard Crimson and translate it into an image of me writing “in my journal to sort out my feelings”, or to claim that I was relocated due to class-tension issues (which is completely false) reveals the deliberate choice to portray the interviewed students as ghetto, troubled, self-absorbed, and socially misfit. The article disregarded my involvement with campus organizations, my immeasurable happiness with Harvard faculty and students, and my positive attempts to address these issues. It is obvious that the writer intended to portray the subjects, not as multifaceted individuals, but as low-income, “needy” students. These fabrications have the potential to cause dismissal more than they do to evoke productive dialogue.
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A prom that had a not so happy ending. On Saturday morning at around 7:30 or so, three teenagers driving on the street some hours after their prom ran into two pedestrians, killing a 67 year old woman and injuring her daughter. They were both out walking the mother’s dog. Based on what I’ve read about this, there was a prom perhaps until midnight or so, an after prom cruise until 4, and a three an a half hour gap between 4 and 7:30. It is affirmed in the linked article that breathalyzer tests were administered both before the prom and before the boat trip. Bags were also searched, and no alcohol was on the boat. Based on deductive reasoning, then, that three and a half hour gap is a canyon and a huge story needs to be told concerning what happened, why there was beer in their car, and why Jonathan Caruso, the driver, failed a breathalyzer test. In my opinion, the negligent homicide charge is right on the money and I honestly don’t see how you can plead not guilty to that. I’m actually surprised he did. How does he squeeze his way out of killing a 67 year old woman? He did it. He was drunk and perhaps didn’t see them, so there was no intent. But it’s still something he is completely responsible for. I’d be irate if he got away with this, but I really don’t think he will. It’s just a matter of the other people in the car saying what happened, where they got the beer, and what they did between 4 and 7 AM. Here’s to hoping the jury finds him guilty, and that he feels remorseful for what he did.

David Ortiz has been in quite the slump since the season started. He hasn’t hit one homerun all season and has a .208 batting average (at the time I wrote this). It’s good to keep faith in your players, but I am getting a bit worried and losing some hope in him. My resident assistant from this past year mentioned to me that all a designated hitter does is practice hitting, as they don’t play the field. Part of me wants the Sox to take him out for a while (they’ve done it for two games to this point) and see if they can get another power hitter on. But another part of me doesn’t want to be so vicious; it wants to give him a chance. Maybe he just needs some time. Or perhaps he should work on getting his batting average up at least. That way, if we don’t get homerun power out of him, we at least get a guy that can drive in some runs or get on base himself. The issue with bigger baseball players like Ortiz is that without power, they lose a lot of oomph. They can’t run very fast, so they can’t steal bases or beat out the throw to first base. I think it’s just a little tough for them and perhaps a bit too one dimensional.

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