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...Brien: I was an anonymous veteran. I didn’t mention to anybody except my best friend here that I was even in Vietnam, much less that I was a soldier in Vietnam. It wasn’t out of any shame. I just didn’t want to have anyone look at me in any way beyond what I was, which was a student here. I didn’t want to explain myself to people–not out of any motive except it’s hard, and I didn’t want...
...think just every day she was out there giving it her best,” said Ray Watkins, Sarubbi’s coach...
...incredibly unwise to subject oneself to concentrated UV rays on purpose. We don’t go around smearing ourselves with arsenic, do we? But if people won’t stop frequenting tanning salons and turning into lobsters, even when they are aware of the health risks, the best thing is for the government to tighten tanning bed restrictions...
...their immigration status, but there are no similar measures regarding higher education. Edward Schumacher-Matos, who directs the Harvard Inter-Faculty Initiative on Immigration and Integration Policy and Studies, believes the primary reason to pass the DREAM Act is that it is in the country’s best interest...
...select few are able to defer the limitations of an undocumented future when they are accepted at schools like Harvard. In its efforts to recruit the best students from the nation and the world, Harvard is one of very few universities with the financial resources to offer merit-based, need-blind admissions standards for all students, including those ineligible for federal financial...