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Although the two candidates' victory celebrations were at sites just five blocks apart, their ideological divide is much larger...
...born in New Haven, Connecticut, to a pair of New Yorkers who did not want to give me a more ordinary American name like Jennifer or Jessica--names by which I now call almost all my female friends. As my parents intended, my name sets me apart from the mainstream. There has never been another Chana in my class (although a Harvard classmate spells it Hanna). This uniqueness made it harder to blend in when I was a preteen and wanted to disappear into a crowd. But now that I'm older and value individuality, I appreciate the merits...
...Harvard students living on campus, we have our entire world arranged around us, and in this synthesis of work and school and housing and worship and entertainment we thrive as members of the community. As adults living in suburbia later on, our work will be apart from our housing, and both separate from places of worship and houses of entertainment. We should appreciate the moment, but we should also move to alter the zoning codes in our home communities. The organically coherent life which we lead here can be exported to the rest of America so that the country...
...virtually autonomous enclave for the Kurds, theirs to govern, by and large, themselves. For a couple of years it worked: the Kurds held their first ever democratic elections and set up a parliament in their nominative capital of Erbil. But just as predictably, it all fell apart when the old internecine feuds resumed...
Like Harvard, Mass., this southcentral Nebraska town is rural, all white and uncrowded. But its poverty, crime and delinquency make it a world apart...