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...Families are very important. In Nepal social life is everything,” she says. “I live with my grandparents, and my grandfather??s seven brothers all live in the same area...
Wrapped in a traditional, woven vest cinched at the waist by a colorful silk sash, Sulak looks like a combination of a character in a Thai painting and any kind grandfather??but he is also a prominent Thai social critic, author and activist who has made headlines worldwide by his involvement in everything from peace marches to court hearings and counts the Dalai Lama among his friends...
While most first-years were relaxing at home or partying it up somewhere on some distant sun-soaked shore during intersession, The Blanks spent their break holed up in Boch’s grandfather??s home in Vermont. Being sequestered in the middle of nowhere allowed the group to spend 16-hour days honing their musical skills. “There was literally nothing to do up there but play music,” says Carter. “I mean, there was a mule and a cow somewhere nearby. And a cat, I think. But other than...
...12th generation at Harvard to the first-generation at any college at all, living with a legacy means having something to prove. The students profiled in the following pages each came to Harvard with a legacy of sorts: from an older sister’s shadow and a grandfather??s prestige to potential on the basketball court. These are the legacies people bring with them to school, the definitive experiences and personal histories that shape these students’ decision to come here in the first place...
...since, at two-and-a-half, he sat on his grandmother’s lap and asked her what war was. It’s the first moment he can remember clearly. In answer to his question, Libby’s grandmother told him the story of his great-grandfather??s service in the French army, a service that nearly landed him in a concentration camp. “Ever since, it’s been a mission of mine not to have countries broken apart by war,” Libby says...