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When she got in, she was in disbelief. The idea that the daughter of a farm family from a rural Mexican village would be offered a spot at America’s oldest college was incomprehensible...
While an undergraduate at Princeton University, when Caroline M. Elkins informed her parents that she would be majoring in African history, they were “a bit horrified.” A professorship at Harvard and a Pulitzer later, the Elkins are probably glad their daughter did not major in economics.But the Foster associate professor of African studies has never been one to back down from pursuing her goals.INTO AFRICAIn just one year as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Elkins wrote, edited, and published a nearly 500-page tome entitled “Imperial Reckoning...
...Holyoke Center to discuss dealing with immigration officers and financial difficulties.“Some of the Iranians there were the children of the previous regime’s officials, and they were afraid,” Rouhani says. One of his classmates, for instance, was the daughter of a former minister who was then in prison. “They wanted to make sure she could continue studying without any financial issues,” Rouhani says.He also remembers that University President Derek C. Bok sent him a personal letter advising him to contact the president?...
...beat the traffic—Dad insisted on this, though it almost always ensured we were at the Meadowlands with nothing to do by 11:45—retrieve the sandwiches and hot chocolate Mom had prepared and head out, just father and son (later daughter) for the whole day, picking his brain non-stop. It didn’t matter that we were headed to a football game: Mickey Mantle and Sandy Koufax were always on the agenda until we reached a certain exit. Then, and only then, would we transition into our weekly airing of grievances, which inevitably...
...division of “egotistical people” into two camps, one that used their ego to cover their inadequacies, and one that was “genuinely superior,” into which category he placed himself. McGovern gave the example of when his daughter was deciding where to go to university, and he asked Galbraith what the difference was between Wellesley and Harvard. “‘Well,’ he snorted, ‘at Harvard if you’re lucky you might get Galbraith once a week. At Wellesley...