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...said he based his judgment on the experiences of his friends who attend Harvard. “[My friends] have said that there is a lot of pressure on students to succeed from other students,” Parker said...
Married executives who travel a lot have ample opportunities to cheat on a spouse. But if they want to sneak off with a paramour and can't find a convention to attend, they can call an alibi agency. For a membership fee that is usually less than $100, plus $30 to $50 per lie, services like the Alibi Agency, based in Lytham St. Annes, England, will extend fictitious invitations to business conferences. It will receive your calls and patch them through from "the hotel front desk." The agency will even return, say, a necktie "forgotten at the conference." The alibi...
...Afghanistan, wealthy women strolled Kabul's streets in jeans and Western dresses. The Soviets, although brutal in their occupation of the country, maintained women's rights during their decade-long rule. But when the Islam-inspired mujahedin government took over in 1992, life began to change. Women still could attend university, especially to study in the medical and educational fields, but many started wearing head scarves to appease the mullahs. When the Taliban came to power in 1996, its fanatical clerics erased all remaining rights: women are forbidden to leave the house without a male chaperone, windows are painted...
...reading the Koran. But in the eighth-grade class, only 12 students sit at the desks, their burkas hanging on hooks in the back of their classroom. Many parents believe a couple of years' education is all their daughters need to become good housewives. Other girls in the area attend classes only because international aid groups give extra food to refugee families that send their daughters to school. Most of the teachers are still in their teens and will quit their jobs once they marry. The school's 17-year-old history instructor, who asked not to be named, studied...
...native of South Florida, Horowitz came to the area to attend Northeastern and moved to Central Square after college. After graduation, he joined the staff of the Jewish Advocate, a Boston-based weekly newspaper, which he currently edits...