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...they are huge fans of Facebook, so they’re all my Facebook friends,” she says. HCAP provides a uniquely fun and exciting educational experience for everyone involved. “I’ve been to Asia before, but I hadn’t gotten the opportunity to see Asia through someone who lives there, their eyes,” Amble says. “You’re normally a tourist and you do your own thing.” While HCAP’s application process is already highly competitive, members find...
...questions on her year off, one coach was prepared to listen. And, as it turned out, that same coach prepared to offer Markley another chance at playing college basketball.Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith had taken an initial interest in Markley, but Princeton had beaten her to the punch and gotten the forward’s attention very early on in the recruiting process. Nearly two years later, Delaney-Smith expressed interest once again—this time, in different terms.“A lot of people didn’t understand, but when I talked to Kathy...
...first panelist, a member of the Palestinian parliament from Gaza, began with a shrug. "We've made all these arguments before," he said, speaking mournfully. He didn't expect much different from the next President than what Palestinians had gotten from Bill Clinton or George W. Bush-a belated fling at trying to "solve" the Middle East. "Why do they always wait till their last year in office?" he asked, seeming too weary for fury. The next speaker, from Indonesia, wasn't very angry either. He hoped the next President would emphasize soft power rather than military force. The final...
...Since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, however, the stakes have gotten higher. As a conspicuous (and prosperous) minority group, Christians have made easy targets for all sides of Iraq's sectarian civil war. Because Ankawa is situated in the relative safety of Kurdistan, the town of 20,000 has seen its population jump by a half in just a matter of years as refugees have poured in from violence further south. Osama Thomas, the owner of Love Vision, a store in Ankawa that makes wedding videos, said about 80 percent of his clients were from Baghdad (which he left...
...Miniucchi still had to deal with some of the otherworldly nuttiness of Hollywood when it came to procuring the parking attendant vehicles for the film.“It was almost impossible,” said Miniucchi. “We were actually shooting the film and had not gotten the carts yet. And then Mr. Harvey Weinstein finally took pity on us. He had some sitting in his garage somehow. The strange stories of Hollywood. So we just borrowed them, no charge. It was very nice. He’s a nice...