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...long after, the American-born Watson made it back across the Atlantic to the other Cambridge, where he joined Harvard’s faculty in 1956. His coming brought molecular biology to Harvard, a discipline that has seen explosive growth and advancement in the past 50 years...
...when Noah Welch was named as one of twelve finalists for the Walter Brown Award—given annually to the best American-born hockey player in New England—the sophomore defenseman suffered one of his most disappointing games in a Crimson uniform...
...first-time movie actor was playing a character based loosely on himself—an American-born half-Iranian, half-Latino young man, who travels to Iran to find his roots. His character attempts suicide after a confrontation with his father. Rossoukh, who did all his own stunts, had to jump into a deep pool of water with a rock tied to his ankle by a rope in a slipknot. Though he had practiced untying it, during the actual filming, while resting on the bottom of the pool and acting as if he were drowning, Rossoukh had trouble releasing...
...Atari-playing American-born son of Chinese immigrants, the narrator is stuck between two cultures. His repressed, hard-working parents live up to their roles as model minorities, but he doesn't want to play the part of the meek Asian kid. We see a teacher congratulating the narrator for receiving the highest marks in class, but we know the boy has just beaten up a racist classmate with a ruler. Ultimately, though, that hotel bell is inescapable, and when a health catastrophe strikes his father and destroys their finances, his family is left with nothing but the ashes...
Ilan Kutz is an Israeli psychiatrist and expert in the treatment of trauma. Sue Kutz is an American-born psychotherapist in private practice in Tel Aviv