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...Drain says he finds the academic experience authentic enough...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Passion, Padding Draw H.S. Students | 7/22/2005 | See Source »

...other students, like Joseph L. Drain, 17, of Rocky River, Ohio, the idea of attending Harvard was reason enough to come to Cambridge for the summer...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Passion, Padding Draw H.S. Students | 7/22/2005 | See Source »

...going to get in. The chances are so low,” says Drain. “If I have an opportunity to get this education, even if it’s two classes for this summer, I have to jump...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Passion, Padding Draw H.S. Students | 7/22/2005 | See Source »

...final term has been transformed. When he won re-election two months ago--his parliamentary majority was cut from 161 to 67, mostly because of anger over how he oversold the war in Iraq--there was much talk of his becoming a lame duck whose power would quickly drain to his heir apparent, Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rush Hour Terror: How Tony Blair Found His Groove | 7/10/2005 | See Source »

...General Avraham Baram, 52, a former tank commander. His presence raised questions about possible official involvement by Israel, which ran a profitable aboveboard arms trade with Iran until 1979. Even though the Khomeini regime is a sworn enemy of Israel, Jerusalem views the drawn-out war as a useful drain on the resources of Iraq, a closer and more dangerous foe. Baram insisted that the Israeli "defense establishment" was aware of his activities. But the Israeli Defense Ministry quickly denied any "direct, indirect or tacit connection," and when Baram telephoned the Israeli embassy in Washington to ask for help, Israeli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cutting Off Arms To the Ayatullah | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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