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...knows how to fire a Kalashnikov from daily target practice with his family firearm. When he is older, he hopes to fire a rocket-propelled grenade. "I am small now," he says, squaring his tiny shoulders. "But I will be big when I shoot the Taliban who killed my aunt and uncle." By avenging their deaths, Najibullah is carrying on family custom. His father tracked down the Soviet platoon that killed relatives in the 1980s and lobbed fatal grenades at their encampment. "If I am murdered by the Taliban, then my sons will honor my name by killing the enemy...
...would an 11-year-old boy be interested in going with his aunt to see an evening of dance? In fact, why would anyone want to go to see an evening of dance? This is the very question that Against the Grain enthusiastically answers for its audience...
...backdrop of the mainstage dance show is a running dialogue between two characters, the aforementioned 11-year-old boy and his aunt, who take the role of an audience watching the performance occurring on the stage. The parts are played by Jody E. Flader ’02 and Daniel A. Spitzer ’05, who do not dance in the show, but nevertheless turn in top-notch comic performances. The slight plot of Against the Grain, which nicely sets the stage for the dances, concerns the aunt taking her nephew to the ballet in order to open...
...members—well, he’s the chairman and I’m a member—of the White House Historical Association. I also spent some time with Nancy Bush Ellis, who is an old friend and is the sister of President Bush senior and the aunt of the current President Bush...
Lash wonders how closely Harvard’s policy accounts for these “unusual circumstances.” Her mother, who works at a medical clinic primarily serving Hispanic Medicare patients, must single-handedly support Miranda, her two siblings, her grandmother and her aunt. “My family has struggled to meet the tuition payments since the beginning. My mom has taken out massive loans on her credit cards. She’s considered selling our house and moving to an apartment, just so it will be easier to pay for me and my younger sister...