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...former president of his third-grade class at Brookline’s Edith C. Baker Elementary School, Dukakis—an Eagle Scout—said that he had always been interested in politics...
...twenty-four students named Phi Beta Kappa yesterday are Nicholas O. Bodnar, Lila G. Brown, Sophie Cai, Edith Y. Chan, Marco Chan, Ama R. Francis, Anne L. Goetz, Nell S. Hawley, Meng Xiao He, Taylor J. Helgren, Christopher W. Higgins, Darius S. Imregun, Sundeep S. Iyer, Eli J. Jacobs, Alexander S. Karadjian, Jerry L. Kung, Iya Megre, Arjun R. Ramamurti, Marsha Sukach, Pramod Thammaiah, Arnav Tripathy, Rui Wang, Allen Yang, and Helen H. Yang...
...keep children out of risk, de la Soudière needs the help of people like St. Louis and Edith Philistin. A Haitian nurse volunteering on the U.S. naval hospital ship in Port-au-Prince Bay, Philistin was tending to a 6-year-old boy named Kenzie, who was getting emergency treatment for a fractured leg. Both of his parents had died in the quake, and when he couldn't name any relatives - child psychologists say it's not unusual in traumatic situations for a 6-year-old's memory to get cloudy - doctors on the ship were inclined to send...
...Kenzie, who lost his parents in the earthquake. The leg injury he sustained got bad enough that he was sent to the U.S. naval hospital ship Comfort for emergency treatment. Doctors might have been inclined to then send Kenzie to an orphanage - until a volunteer Haitian nurse on board, Edith Philistin, who was in contact with the UNICEF project, did some detective work and found the boy's relatives, who have since taken him in. "They thought he was dead [until] I pointed to the big boat in the sea," says Philistin...
...under the pretext they were taking a shower. Holocaust experts have also linked the Sobibor guards to mass executions. "The guards were involved in the extermination process - the Nazis had few personnel in the death camps and the people who were there played an integral part in genocide," Dr. Edith Raim, a historian at Munich's Institute of Contemporary History, tells TIME...