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...transfer students say their appreciation of Harvard goes beyond the small, more superficial details—like the real dishware in the dining halls and the reclining desk chairs in dorm rooms. According to Tripathi, many transfers “have a more positive opinion about Harvard because they have been to other places and are astounded by the opportunities...
...school is funded by a charity that is linked to the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, a group responsible for innumerable attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians. In the lobby, the custodian keeps a Karl Gustav machine gun in his desk drawer. Two of the girls in Qawasmeh's school have been injured in the fighting that broke out 1 1/2 years ago. Shireen Rajabi, 8, has a scar above her right eyebrow; she says a soldier hit her with his rifle butt at a checkpoint...
...snap his fingers softly, and I would hustle to the cooler in the Democratic cloakroom to bring him a glass of White Rock sparkling water or dash down the marble back stairs to the Senate restaurant to fetch a dish of vanilla ice cream, which he ate at his desk on the Senate floor as he played his mighty legislative Wurlitzer...
...Massachusetts, thin and glamorous, the millionaire's dreamboat boy, hobbled at the rear of the chamber, on crutches from his back operation. Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin, remembered now as a dark cloud shadowing America, could show, in private, an unexpected sweetness and charm. Always, front and center (first desk, middle aisle, the Democratic leader's spot) stood Lyndon Johnson, almost handsome then, in his 40s, leaner than history remembers him, narrow-eyed, his hair sleek with Stacomb, alert in a vaguely dangerous way--an impresario, a genius of nuances, a wolf in his prime...
...always try to figure out with the student if what they think they want to do can be found in any other department,” Foster says, motioning to a stack of new applications on her clean desk. “I might suggest something they hadn’t even thought of, maybe a joint concentration or an inter-departmental program that would give them a greater degree of flexibility. The crucial thing though is always to hunt for that idea. A special concentration is just not for the student who doesn’t know what they...