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...grew to like the kid. He was a widow's only son, just 20 and too scared of his mother's wrath to embark on the gun-and-death lifestyle that many of his friends had chosen. But he was tempted. "In the end everyone will have to answer to Allah and they will have to explain what they did for their religion," he explained. "I don't want to be left with nothing...
...part a tribal impulse that led Amanda Smith, a 33-year-old Harvard graduate student who is a granddaughter of Joe Kennedy and daughter of Jean Kennedy Smith and Stephen Smith, to embark on the project of sifting through some 600,000 pages of Ambassador Kennedy's papers in order to produce Hostage to Fortune, The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy (Viking; 764 pages; $39.95). As Smith describes it, her search through the often crumbling documents (some uncatalogued at the JFK Library in Boston, some forgotten in a warehouse in Long Island City, N.Y., and others found in the attic...
...schedule, fall term exams would take place soon after classes end, leaving material fresh in the mind. Undergraduates could then embark on a longer, more relaxing vacation, one that coincides with the winter breaks of other schools and enables long-lost friends to meet once more. Upon the end of a relaxing break free of term-paper worries, undergraduates would return to Harvard refreshed, easing into the second semester with new schedules and cleared minds...
...Harvard women's hockey team, fresh off a key win at defending-ECAC champion No. 2 Brown, will embark on a much longer road trip this weekend with games at Cornell and No. 4 St. Lawrence...
Before Harvard merged with Radcliffe College, Radcliffe owned the buildings. Harvard could only embark on renovation projects there with Radcliffe's approval...