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Federico Carrasco faces the typical demands of a divorced father of two: what to do with his sons every other weekend; what to tell his own mother when she insists it's time he got remarried; how to explain to his childless partner that, for him, two kids are enough. What makes this 40-year-old different from millions of other hard-working Spanish fathers is that his partner is a man. One issue, at least, appears to be resolved: Carrasco says he and Javier Dorca, his boyfriend of eight years, plan to tie the knot next year under Spain...
...Over black beans and rice, Mashael A. Fakhro ’11 talks about adjusting to Cambridge after leaving her home in Bahrain (for those who don’t know, Bahrain is an island in the Persian Gulf). “I didn’t need to explain myself so much over there,” Fakhro says. Here at Harvard, however, she finds herself fielding questions about her Arab heritage and the location (or existence) of her country.Despite being the lone Bahraini at Harvard, Fakhro doesn’t feel alone. Several organizations at Harvard cater...
...What are the development aid priorities of the candidates? Do they support President Bush's incentive-heavy Millennium Challenge Account? How do they explain the fact that many poor countries are worse off after years of Western foreign...
...space-saving closets” that cannot close with hangers in them.While CBI may seem like the result of mere wear-and-tear or a lack of funding, strong evidence suggests that it is actually a coordinated effort among those in Massachusetts Hall. How else could one explain large amounts of money dedicated to refurbishing or building non-residential facilities, while student housing—that the University encourages all students to live in—deteriorates? Additional evidence can be found by comparing Harvard’s undergraduate housing to other universities. A nearby, far lesser institution (Yale...
...idea generally scuttled when residents realized that a lot of Manhattanites didn't know it was part of the club to begin with, and at least a few were confusing it with the little triangular island also named Staten at the southernmost tail of Argentina - which would at least explain why the ferry takes so long. Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley have similarly talked of seceding from greater Los Angeles, but the deal has repeatedly gotten hung up over merchandising rights...