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...local and my occasional lapse of grammar or vocabulary made my origin even more obvious, I could still understand and be understood. That is until I had Catalán to contend with.After two weeks, I worked with a different doctor. The first patient entered and fifteen minutes of Catalán conversation ensued. Afterward, I politely asked the doctor if he would please speak Castellan since I have not learned any Catalán. “That is your own disability” he replied. Weeks later, in a meeting, everyone obligingly spoke Castellan until one doctor accidentally...
...Stay the course. Fifteen years after junk-bond pioneer Michael Milken went to prison for securities fraud, he is still slowly rebuilding his image as a philanthropist in the fields of education and medical research. Gibson may have a similarly long haul. His comments are, for many Jews, a third strike. The first strike came from comments Gibson's father made denying the Holocaust, the second from depictions of Jews in his film The Passion in what many saw as a negative light. "When you do something that plays into a preconception, you have to recognize that it will...
Although without a permanent home for his collection, Remele hopes that his cocktail dresses ($500–$800), evening gowns ($1,000–$2,200), and cashmere coats ($1,400–$2,600) will arrive in fifteen boutiques throughout the country by next spring...
...email, and I will tell you how you can complain even more effectively. So go ahead. Whine away. But for the love of Jean, Meheba, and the millions of refugees in the world, appreciate it and act accordingly first. Aria S. K. Laskin ’08, a Fifteen Minutes associate chair, is a history and literature concentrator in Cabot House. Should you want to answer her postcard call, her e-mail is laskin@fas.harvard.edu...
...Fifteen Israelis have been killed by Hizballah rockets in the past week. The coastal city of Haifa has been hit repeatedly, including a strike last Sunday that killed eight people. Tiberias and the Jezareel Valley have also been hit, as was Nazareth on Wednesday, killing two Arab-Israeli children. The weapons are not particularly accurate, but they are obviously terrifying - and potentially fatal. If nothing else, they serve Hizballah's goal of dragging the conflict out as long as possible...