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...Family and friends have been supportive for the two most recent Baha’i converts at Harvard. Boothe cites her family??s varied religious background as a cause of their openness. “Having an aunt who was a Muslim, knowing that there wasn’t really anything wrong with other religions” factored into their acceptance of the switch, she says...
...grade was determined. She did all the classes, all the extracurriculars, and service I’d done.”A homeschooling parent who considers herself more of a “general contractor” than a teacher, Carla Jentoft educated her three children in the family??s Circle Pines, Minn., home. Having studied abroad during college, this high school valedictorian and her husband wanted to provide their children with a rigorous education including a solid foundation in the humanities. Unsatisfied with local schools and armed with Carla Jentoft’s teaching degree from...
...Libya, Michael Porter is becoming a household name. Porter, the Lawrence University professor at the Harvard Business School, just returned from Libya where he is the chief consultant on economic reforms. Porter said that five years ago, the Qaddafis—Libya’s ruling family??contacted him and asked him to help modernize the economy. Despite the Qaddafis’ offer, Porter’s involvement remained minimal until a year and a half ago when he oversaw an initial assessment of the situation. “I don’t do much...
...doesn’t elegantly lead to another.As a result, the writer has to make do with some combination of describing the quotidian (a difficult task for past events that can only be accessed indirectly) and recalling anecdotes, neither of which Munro does compellingly. Throughout the stories of her family??s sea voyage and the early days of their settlement in Canada, the anecdotes seem arbitrary and perfunctory, ending before they begin. There is little sense of place or vivid evocation of experience, and Munro’s attempts to imaginatively create an inner life for her characters...
...ambitious young man named Alois from his incestuous beginnings as a peasant to his rise in the civil government (complete with plenty of less-than-kosher sex) to his incestuous third marriage, which produced several children, including Adolf (known here as “Adi”). As the family??of which each member, with the notable exception of Adolf, is portrayed with remarkable clarity and complexity—works and grows, the strong-headed eldest son rebels, the motherly sister matures, and young Adi lives a relatively normal life only occasionally punctuated by hints of his menace...