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...answer lies in Maurer's background. An agriculturist by training, he came to Bhutan more than 30 years ago to help the remote kingdom develop a dairy industry, before staying on to open his guesthouse in a traditional stone building that was once the home of the King's sister. Maurer's professional expertise, as well as the pristine environment, ensure that the food at the guesthouse will be among the freshest you've tasted. Vegetables are from the garden. The jams, honey and bread (apparently a favorite of the Queen Mother's) are homemade. The butter and cheese...
Siniora's opponents can hardly be blamed for initially underestimating him, since little in his background prepared him for becoming the guardian of Lebanese democracy. He is an accountant and banker by profession, and he holds the position of Prime Minister as a Sunni Muslim, as the country's constitution requires. But he is not a sectarian warlord or family patriarch of the sort that usually ascends to the dangerous business of being a top Lebanese politician. He grew up in Sidon, an enthusiastic Arab nationalist like Hariri, who tapped him to be Finance Minister during Hariri's remarkable reconstruction...
...lovesick crooner, flatly singing “Honey I miss you now / Baby I miss you now.” “Singer Sing,” the first track of the album, is deceptively good, featuring Britta Phillips’ throaty, intriguing vocals over a funky background and some nice guitar work by Wareham. However, the second song, “Words You Used To Say,” is marked by a distracting, spacey-sounding arpeggiated synthesizer harmony, which completely obliterates any other potentially interesting facet of the track. The following two songs?...
...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...
...have so many valedictorians in the pool that it’s not [quite] delineated out for us. We treat homeschool applicants no differently from other applicants. There are no separate application requirements.”Harvard works to fill its classes with students from a variety of different backgrounds, and it appears these three homeschoolers are no exception.ENGAGED EDUCATIONHomeschooled from second grade to college, Karin M. Jentoft ’10 is the first to acknowledge the complexities of applying to Harvard as a homeschooler. Leaning forward on her wooden chair in a quiet, upstairs study room in Cabot...