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...Mary Karen Read, 19, of Annandale, Va., according to her aunt, Karen Kuppinger, of Rochester, N.Y. Read was born in South Korea into an Air Force family and lived in Texas and California before settling in the northern Virginia suburb of Annandale. She considered a handful of colleges, including nearby George Mason University, before choosing Virginia Tech. It was a popular destination among her Annandale High School classmates, according to Kuppinger...
...interpreter. During her presentation, Sabreen described how her grandmother was forced to leave her homeland and how the older generations “left everything because they felt for sure they were going to return.” Tahreer told of the strength of Palestinian women and of her aunt who has had three of her sons captured and one injured by the Israelis. Taha spoke about the children: “They have no playground, no places to play... because of the occupation.” The reaction to last night’s show was overwhelmingly positive...
...border than any other of the 56 indigenous groups in Mexico, such as the Maya and the Zapotecs. It's easy to see why in Santa Cruz, where farmers still till the soil with oxen and wooden plows. But about five years ago, villagers like Olivia Mendoza, Bautista's aunt, decided to invest remittances in something more productive than pickup trucks and wide-screen TVs. "It was time to use that treasure to find ways to bring our families back together," says Mendoza, 40. With help from the Association of Mexican Social Sector Credit Unions (AMUCSS), they pooled...
...able to understand the life of someone in Valentino’s shoes. That’s the measure of success for me.”This may seem a counterintuitive assertion coming from Eggers, who reviewed Edward P. Jones’ short story collection “All Aunt Hagar’s Children” for the New York Times Book Review last August. But Eggers said his goals as a reviewer are appreciative rather than evaluative.“I write reviews when I love a book and I feel like I can explain...
...Family and friends have been supportive for the two most recent Baha’i converts at Harvard. Boothe cites her family’s varied religious background as a cause of their openness. “Having an aunt who was a Muslim, knowing that there wasn’t really anything wrong with other religions” factored into their acceptance of the switch, she says...