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...some 50 km northwest of Madrid, where a colossal basilica is carved into the craggy Guadarrama Mountains. There, they will lay wreaths and offer fascist salutes, as they do every year. But this time, their pilgrimage will take place in a country that is ready to confront the dark chapter of its dictatorship - and perhaps finally put to rest the legacy of Francisco Franco. After igniting a civil war in 1936 when he led a coup against Spain's democratically elected government, Franco and his Nationalist forces - aided by Germany and Italy - finally prevailed in 1939. For the next...
...relief work, helped restore golf courses in war-ravaged Rwanda and Georgia. "I thought we should leave a few of the rusted tanks and missile launchers out there on the fairways as a testament to history," McNeill says, "but Afzal said, 'No, it's time for a new chapter.'" Afzal cleared away land mines by borrowing a flock of sheep from a nomad and setting them loose on the course. A few were blown up, but Afzal's philosophy is, Better dead sheep than dead golfers. (He paid the nomad for the lost sheep.) The United Nations later turned...
...Minority women feel uncomfortable bringing up their community service to employers, sensing tacit disapproval and persisting stereotypes. But Battles says Pitney Bowes not only knows about her sorority participation but lauds it. The company even sponsored a college scholarship fund of a local Delta chapter. "We are raising our profile in the diverse community," says Battles...
Erica A. Scott ’06 won a first place award for her research on new approaches to understanding alcoholism in Native American communities at a national American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) conference last weekend. Scott, who was supported by the newly formed Harvard Chapter of AISES, said she was very pleased to win the award and plans to use her findings to formulate a senior thesis topic. “I was initially just so surprised and excited,” said Scott, who spent the summer doing research among Native Americans in Oklahoma by means...
...fourth-generation Cantabrigian, this is only one chapter in a life marked by interaction with the University...