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...Belmont Hill],” he says.MEAN GIRLSFor Maddy Fleming, a recent Harvard acceptee and current senior at the Winsor School, a private all-girls school in Boston, the small amount of gender stereotyping she encountered was quickly outweighed by the positive nature of her experience. Fleming felt that when she made the decision in eighth grade to attend an all-girls high school, her choice was met with biting responses. “There was an assumption that people made, that I might be a feminist, and in middle school the boys would joke about lesbianism...
...cried a lot," says her daughter Maya Soetoro-Ng, "if she saw animals being treated cruelly or children in the news or a sad movie-or if she felt like she wasn't being understood in a conversation." And yet she was fearless, says Soetoro-Ng. "She was very capable. She went out on the back of a motorcycle and did rigorous fieldwork. Her research was responsible and penetrating. She saw the heart of a problem, and she knew whom to hold accountable...
...fall of 1994, Ann was having dinner at her friend Patten's house in Jakarta when she felt a pain in her stomach. A local doctor diagnosed indigestion. When Ann returned to Hawaii several months later, she learned it was ovarian and uterine cancer. She died on Nov. 7, 1995, at 52. (See pictures of Obama in Russia...
...write a memoir," Soetoro-Ng says. Finally, she discovered the start of a life story, but it was less than two pages. She never found anything more. Maybe Ann had run out of time, or maybe the chemotherapy had worn her out. "I don't know. Maybe she felt overwhelmed," says Soetoro-Ng, "because there was so much to tell."-With reporting by Zamira Loebis and Jason Tedjasukmana/Jakarta...
Lesson Two: You can rattle the Americans and the Iraqi government considerably by attacking the Green Zone. Blasts in the enclave where the Iraqi government and the American command stay had fallen off steeply until the most recent wave of fighting. In recent months people inside the Green Zone felt safer and maybe a little bolder - possibly one reason for picking a fight in Basra. But a steady hail of rockets falling on and around Iraqi government buildings suddenly got Maliki talking about a political compromise with Sadr, at least for a time. In other words, the "heavily fortified" Green...