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Last spring, senior Melissa Anderson and junior Elsa O’Riain were elected co-captains of the Harvard women’s tennis team. That partnership would not be in name only, as coach Gordon Graham named them Harvard’s No. 1 doubles team this fall, creating in the process a dual force that would take women’s collegiate tennis by storm. Anderson, who hails from Australia, and O’Riain, who is from Ireland, immediately formed a chemistry on the court. “We just clicked,” Anderson said...
...from ancient, and therefore dare I say slightly out-of-date books, I would pray for humanity that these people would finally turn their brains on. Certainly no faith in this world requires anybody to be a mindless, raving conqueror in the name of religion - of all things! Cornelia Graham Lage, Germany
...YEVONDA GRAHAM'S CHILDHOOD MEMORIES are mostly the stuff of nightmares. In and out of 36 foster homes, Vonda, now 22, says she was sexually abused by relatives, molested by a foster parent and raped as a teenager. By the time she got to the home of Dale Graham and Karla Groschelle in Whitley City, Ky., at 17, she had been in eight hospitals and three group homes and had just run away from her last foster home. Arriving at the couple's house for what she expected to be yet another short-term placement, she remembers...
When doctors first documented cases of AIDS 25 years ago among gay men and drug users, many Evangelicals assumed the epidemic was not their problem. Evangelist Franklin Graham--son of Billy, father of four, grandfather of four--helped to change that attitude and to persuade the Bush Administration in 2003 to earmark $15 billion for the struggle against AIDS. Graham, 53, spoke with TIME's Christine Gorman about AIDS, Darfur and motorcycles...
...speaks in lucid, well-constructed sentences," observes former Senator Bob Graham, who was chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee until 2003. "And then he pauses as if to give the listener a chance to assimilate what he has just said." It is clear when Hayden goes to Capitol Hill that he has studied his audience carefully. "He's a great PowerPoint briefer, and he speaks at their level," says a congressional intelligence staffer who has seen the general in action with lawmakers. "He has that wonderful quality of being quite likable and unpretentious. And he would work those members assiduously...