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...Palestinian, though, and his family lives in Shatila, an impoverished refugee camp on the edge of Beirut. Many Lebanese eat, drink and dance away memories of the violent past. But in the dank, swastika-graffitied alleyways of the camps, where four generations of Palestinians have come of age, there's little chance of forgetting. For most of the 220,000 Palestinians living in refugee camps in Lebanon, time has stopped...
...Gaza. He offered them a lesson they are unlikely to forget. "In the past, Jews used to kill us, and no one defended us," he explained. "Today, if the Jews kill us, we kill them." Later, Makdah - who was born in Lebanon and has been a fighter since the age of 12 - vowed that Palestinian leaders negotiating with Israel would never trade away the right of return. "No peace agreement can survive if there is one refugee outside the homeland," he said. The Palestinians' long, dismal wait seems doomed to continue...
...former Currier House business tutor, Christopher C. Kim ’99, died suddenly on February 11, at the age of 32. Kim was a passionate advocate for education, which eventually led him to the administration of a five-year-old Washington, D.C. public charter school. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...changes friends or classmates or teachers, how much will his personality evolve with those shifts? I wouldn't say that personalities are formed by peers. I would say that experiences with peers are one of the influences on personality. Can these influences be reversed? Depends in part on the age of the individual. Also, in some cases the new environment may turn out to be not very different from the old one. For example, a child who is well-liked by her peers in first grade is likely to be popular in second grade as well, even with an entirely...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt, class of 1904—an ambitious, blue-blooded member of the New York clan—was steeped in the wealth and privilege of the Gilded Age...