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...case anyone thought this was just dusty nostalgia, it turns out that the very face of 21st century youth is a fan of the Italian. "Garibaldi is my favorite hero," said Daniel Radcliffe, star of the Harry Potter movies, in a recent Italian magazine interview. "In my final exam I wrote about Garibaldi and Italian unification. Actually, there was also the German (unification), but Italy's is much more heroic. What Garibaldi did was amazing!" The legend lives...
This is a typical Baghdad love story. Sameera Ubaid had a temp job last summer, supervising examinations at an engineering college. In the exam hall one day, she met Salaam Ali, a lecturer at the college. They made small talk while ensuring that the students didn't cheat. When the exams ended, they went their separate ways, promising to call but, Ali says, "never expecting to see each other again...
...association in the eyes of the fanatics who control the streets of Dora. (The names of several people in this story have been changed at their request to protect their identities.) When Ali proposed last fall, they had still not seen each other since the encounter in the exam hall. "I had not seen him in four months, but I knew I was making the right choice," says Ubaid. Since their engagement, they have met on just four occasions, and Ali says they are resigned to remaining "engaged on the cell phone" for months, even years, before they...
...didn’t get a chance to spend as much time with her as we would have liked because it was during exam period when she came for interviews, but I had opportunity and so did the other girls to have about a 30-minute conversation with her, and she’s excited and motivated,” Litvak said. “She knows what she wants to get done, which is nice to have. She’s happy to be here, she really loves tennis, and she’s happy to have gotten...
...Laying out the case for a revamped calendar that would include a fall exam period before the winter holidays, a four-week long break between terms, and a spring term exam period that would end a week and a half earlier than at present, the report weighed in at some 20-plus pages and underwent 13 revisions. Meanwhile, Petersen’s schoolwork went neglected...