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...says. “Then maybe I’d know what I was going to do next year and she’d set me up with a backup deal.” She pauses. “Maybe I can claim I’m a distant relative...
...time-frame on Allston development may be too distant to help remedy the immediate space crunch for student dance and theater groups, which soon will lose the Rieman center and, temporarily, the run-down Hasty Pudding building...
...Barre in 1969 and was forced into exile with her family when she was 10. She was brought up as a traditional Muslim girl in Kenya, although her father was progressive enough to insist that his daughter receive an education. At 22, confronted with an arranged marriage to a distant cousin in Canada ("I was repelled by his comment that I would bear him six sons," she says), she decided to escape to the Netherlands. Right from the start she felt pressure to conform from the Somali community in the Netherlands. But she resisted. "I wanted to be part...
...take advantage of those rare smog-free days, go for a stroll along the broad, grassy Rajpath avenue, New Delhi's Champs Elys?es. Featuring the President's residence with its ornamental lakes on either side and India Gate, it is on every tour of India's capital. But with distant views disappearing into the daytime haze, Rajpath can also be an uncomfortable reminder of how far New Delhi is from breathing easy. Early evening, however, when the congestion eases and the monuments are illuminated, is a joy. For a quick history lesson, head southeast to the 16th century Humayun...
...school and in the evening after dinner. With my older sister already out of the house for medical school, and my dad working 60-hour weeks at gas stations, restaurants and grocery stores to support us, what most people would call a normal family life was, for me, a distant dream...