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...black economic empowerment projects on wine farms in her native South Africa.Dovey spent her early childhood shuttling back and forth to Australia with her family due to the death threats the South African police made against her father, an academic. She moved permanently to Australia (where she has dual citizenship) when she was 14. Although she had been back to South Africa on holidays and for thesis research during her junior summer, it was only after Harvard that Dovey returned to South Africa on a traveling fellowship to live. “It was a really difficult and quite unhappy...
...their longing to enter “Red Sox Nation”—the crypto-fascist public-relations campaign that the baseball club is currently promoting—has earned them a counterfeit citizenship. Their interest is unsubstantiated by any connection to the team’s history and traditions, the source for both the richness as well as the baseness of Red Sox fan culture. Baseball requires patience, dedication, and commitment—all values that have lost their pride of place among most Harvard students, especially those who cheer...
...room for this realization, though, amongst the believers. Furtive questions among prefrosh about the possible ambiguities of Harvard life are chalked up to sabotage or schadenfreude. It is akin to the sort of jingoism sometimes displayed by recently-minted American citizens eager to assert the superiority of their new citizenship over all others. In such a fashion, expectations inflate faster than Weimar currency; students’ assumptions will be heading into next September outrageous and out-of-touch. The fallout is obvious: a body of students for whom the most delicate disappointment of perfection constitutes universal depression...
...expression meets its counterpoint. Barenboim says the 2003 death from cancer of Palestinian intellectual Edward Said--Barenboim's friend and co-leader of the orchestra--was "catastrophic" for an orchestra based on Arab-Israeli parity. In January of this year, Barenboim made a symbolic gesture: he accepted Palestinian citizenship and became a dual national...
...take an IT job at the World Trade Center. He was running late on the morning of 9/11 and reached the lobby as the first plane hit. He later witnessed the entire structure's collapse from less than a block away. Since then, he has applied for U.S. citizenship and launched several blogs about Iraqi news and culture...