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...Battle of Britain. After high school—where he was both a runner and an actor—Pilbeam won a scholarship to Cambridge. Though he initially planned to study medicine, his interests shifted to anthropology.In 1963, he crossed the Atlantic to attend Yale on a fellowship, though he returned to Cambridge within two years “immunized by America.”“I had caught the American bug—that there is no reason to not think you could do something new,” Pilbeam said, adding that Cambridge at that time...
...didn’t get in to. The production you weren’t cast in, and the team you didn’t make. There are the professors who wouldn’t advise your thesis, the funding that didn’t come through, the fellowship or job that you weren’t offered. Here, we have learned to experience failure, because it is impossible to succeed at everything at once. Whether those failures were in the classroom, in tryouts, or even in a fight with a friend, we would be remiss if we said that...
...time, each school’s Hillel and the Christian Fellowship chose to stay independent. According to club officials, “separate functions” made a merger unnecessary...
...nobody's going to marry a girl who gets raped," says Ragen. In Bnei Brak, a predominately Haredi city near Tel Aviv, social worker Doron Agasi says one young Haredi man told him that he had molested more than a hundred girls. Agasi, director of the Shlom Banaich Fellowship, the only organization in Israel that treats pedophiles and their victims, convinced the young man to confess to the police. But, says Agasi, the authorities refused to bring charges because none of the parents of the alleged victims had filed complaints. Agasi says the rapist is now roaming free...
...against the journalists are vague. But the real crime they committed was crossing an ever-shifting line of what the country's media can and cannot report, says Shawn McHale, a professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University who is in Vietnam on a Fulbright-Hays fellowship. Vietnam's economy has been growing rapidly for the last several years as the authoritarian government gradually embraces free-market reforms. Institutions like the press would like to see a similar lifting of controls and have increasingly been pushing the limits of government tolerance...