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...definitely would [recommend taking a year off]—my brother is a junior, but I’m already pushing for him to take a gap year—it has allowed me to take a step back, assess where I was, and come back more prepared,” Adler says...
...accepted students from 79 different countries for the College Class of 2011. I cannot but wonder how many of these countries have maps that make no reference to the state of Israel or textbooks that include gems like this one from the Palestinian territories: “my brother, the oppressor [referring to Israelis] has crossed the line and the time has come for jihad and martyrdom.” Harvard, with its influence both on its own students and on students everywhere, must do more to combat these dangerous perceptions...
...Fowler did not comment on the matter Thursday. Beck said he was uncertain about details of the Alabaster shooting, but he said the 1968 altercation occurred when Fowler was mourning the death of his brother in Vietnam and there was a disagreement over sick...
...closest he has ever come to a personal religious crisis, he recalls, was when he was in college and considering whether to go off on a mission, as his grandfather, father and brother had done. Mitt was deeply in love with Ann, his high school sweetheart and future wife, and couldn't bear to spend more than two years away from her. He says he also felt guilty about the draft deferment he would get for it, when other young men his age were heading for Vietnam. In the end, it was Ann - a convert to Mormonism from having been...
...Kennedy). In it, Romney declares of his pro-choice abortion stand, "You will not see me wavering on that or be a multiple choice." He cites his mother, who ran unsuccessfully for the Senate from Michigan in 1970 as an abortion-rights advocate, and the searing tragedy of his brother-in-law's teenage sister - "a dear, close family relative who was very close to me" - who died of a botched illegal abortion in the 1960s...