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Chivian and Cizik also led a 10-person expedition to Alaska last August to witness firsthand the impact climate change has had on the lives of the Inupiaq, whose island is eroding into the Chukchi...
...location in Egleston Square in the fall. Student interest in the program has been strong, and 826 Boston opened the Greater Boston Bigfoot Research Institute, a tongue-in-cheek storefront for the writing center along the lines of 826 Valencia’s pirate supply store. Feeney has seen firsthand the formative effects of programs such as 826, and he attributes this to the organization’s lighthearted approach to literature. “When your writing space doubles as a Bigfoot research institute, you inevitably invite students to think a little creatively. I believe that sort of whimsy...
...elite Ivy Club. However, Hogue had already done time in jail—in fact, had deferred his acceptance for a year because of it—and had falsified his SATs and high school grades. Princeton had been taken in by a huge scam. Samuels artfully blends firsthand accounts, multiple documents, and personal observation to reveal that Hogue is not your average identity thief. While Hogue is a man who is deeply disturbed, compelled to lie and steal from anyone he could possibly rip off, Samuels carefully peels back the superficial labels of liar and fraud to discover...
Delle says that he witnessed firsthand the “deplorable water and sanitary conditions...
...insurgent attacks and suicide bombings, along with the rates of U.S. and Iraqi casualties. But remarkable as they are, the statistics don't tell you about the lives of ordinary Iraqis like the Hammadis. So in mid-March, I returned for a two-week visit to get a firsthand feel for the changes. It seemed the perfect time to take soundings: the fifth anniversary of the start of the war and a little more than a year since the start of the surge...