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Buckley, who became a U.S. citizen in 1948, was a Guggenheim fellow in 1946-47 and again in 1964. He was awarded Phi Beta Kappa’s Christian Gaus Prize in 1952. Buckley was also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as a member of the Board of Syndics of the Harvard University Press. He also taught at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University before returning to Harvard...
...Upper Peninsula and western parts of the state, the hunting and gun culture is celebrated with almost as much gusto as the Christian faith. Cars driving through the Hiawatha National Park were adorned with bumper stickers slogans like “A man with a gun is a citizen. A man without a gun is a subject,” and many still sport post-September 11 flags. Gun culture is at its strongest in this part of the Midwest. The world’s largest sporting goods store, Cabelas, is in Western Michigan. The center of the store...
When it came time to apply to college, Hernandez faced a quandary: as a Mexican citizen, she was considered an international student, and thus was ineligible for financial aid at most universities. Of the schools she applied to, only Stanford and Harvard could afford to give international student aid. This required getting into two of the most selective schools in the country, but Hernandez breezed through the admissions process, and chose Harvard...
...dramatic on-air takeover of NTV. Parfyonov chose to stay rather than join colleagues who resigned in protest. Namedni has been NTV's main political news program since September 2001, and Parfyonov became the network's best-known face. After the takeover, Gazprom brought in Boris Jordan, a U.S. citizen, to head both Gazprom-media and NTV. The 36-year-old New Yorker didn't have any media experience, but had worked as a manager and investment banker in Russia since the early 1990s, during which time he had made a name for himself among Russia's business and political...
...understand how such a small piece of land could be the source of such bitter dispute. Visiting the Holocaust museum shed new light on the desire for a Jewish homeland. Meeting with a Palestinian journalist, who had to travel illegally to Jerusalem because he is not an Israeli citizen, called attention to the civil rights violations that have occurred in the wake of the Intifada. Hearing the immense sorrow of a woman who lost her daughter in the Dolphinaria disco bombing brought home the fear and pain of living every day under the shadow terror...