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...like Zaza, attended Delbarton School, also attests to intense friendships made in prep-school—friendships not possible at either a coed high school or college. “You didn’t have the distraction of girls around, and there was a brotherhood that you form with the guys that you wouldn’t get at a coed school,” Ahlborn says. While they miss the closeness that they felt at their small, single-sex schools, many agree that this same closeness helped them develop confidence to succeed, if not socially, than at least...
...such calls are both unrealistic and futile in effecting positive change—not only does a boycott fail to improve the plight of those affected by China’s actions, but such a step does, in fact, concretely harm the athletes themselves and the symbolism of brotherhood and harmony advanced by the Olympic Games. When Beijing won the bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games, the decision was certainly controversial, but many hoped that the pressure of international scrutiny would spur reform within the totalitarian nation. Yet even as China has constructed arenas, stadiums, and playing fields, positive...
...injustice to the faith. It is unfair to view this expression of religious belief as an act of proselytization. The aim of the Harvard Islamic Society in pursuing this tradition on campus is to share with the Harvard community an aspect of Islam that embodies its beliefs in brotherhood and primacy of God. Its goal is to make the campus aware of Islamic values by means of a custom that has been observed in Muslim societies across the globe since the earliest days of the religion. And to even consider it a form of proselytization is far-fetched...
...enough to remember decades of bitter wrangling with the U.K.'s close neighbor, often over aspects of the European Union, most recently over the invasion of Iraq. Now was the time, declared Sarkozy on the opening day of his two-day state visit to Britain, for a "Franco-British brotherhood...
...GPSTS was indifferent to the overall gaming bill and was only concerned with having the online poker ban removed from the legislation. Still, the union members who demonstrated at the event said that the bill should be approved in its current form. Robert Black, a member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 25, said that online poker was directing money out of state and that banning online poker and building casinos would redirect that money to Massachusetts. While Black added that the proposed casinos were crucial to revitalizing blighted parts of the state, he nevertheless said he expects...