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...parent, for God’s sake. I think the side Harvard has chosen to see of him is not who he is.”Few would guess that the quiet dean often ran along the sidelines swearing at the 14-year-old referees as his daughter played little-league soccer or that as a college student, threw firecrackers in the back of trucks with his friends, and once had to take a friend home in a wheelbarrow after a party he had hosted.She added that her father expected that the alcohol decision would not make...
...teams, he told me—a seemingly ridiculous suggestion given the magnanimity of my decision.But my dad had ample reason to be skeptical. Tucked away with information about Harvard were pamphlets from Duke, Stanford, Michigan, Wisconsin, Virginia, and Oklahoma, the other schools to which I sent applications. His daughter, who had filled out March Madness brackets long before she knew how to spell “Mississippi” or “Valparaiso” (but who picked Valpo over Ole Miss in a 13-over-4 stunner in 1998) was prepared to call another upset: Oklahoma...
...abaya,” and she walked freely in the streets with her friends. Thirty years later, with oil prices spiraling in the wake of regional conflicts, she was one of a generation of female professors, department heads, and even ministers in Baghdad. To this day, her daughter, my aunt, fights for women’s rights, unbowed and unscarved, in the Iraqi capital...
...wedding of international proportions. Kristine M. Boehm ’08 and Christian Móller As Kristine M. Boehm ’08 shopped for a wedding dress at Filene’s Basement in downtown Boston, her mother back in Guatemala sent invitations for her daughter to approve...
...think that a movie portraying their dynamic, increasingly prosperous Central Asian nation as a bunch of anti-Semitic, incestuous, pimping backwoods peasants would annoy the people of Kazakhstan. But try telling that to Dariga Nazarbayeva, daughter of President Nursultan Nazarbayev and one of Kazakhstan's leading cultural figures. Nazarbayeva - an accomplished mezzo-soprano who runs one of her country's TV networks - says that nothing before or since the tiny nation emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union has given Kazakhstan anything like the recognition generated by Borat Sagdiev. That would be Borat, the comic alter ego of British...