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Norma and Setsuo Dairiki chose the Stanford community because their three children live in the area and because they wanted to be close to Setsuo's alma mater. The 81-year-old retired engineer is eager to take music and theater classes at the college and watch the school's basketball and football games. In 1942 the Dairikis were sequestered in a camp as part of the U.S.'s wartime internment of the Japanese, and Setsuo missed his Stanford graduation. "We could only take what we could carry," Norma, 77, says of their experience. "We brought one suitcase and stayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to School | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

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