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Still, many University higher-ups are embarking on interesting summer excursions, from multi-country tours to home-grown road trips...
While students running the Emerson Collegeradio station, WERS-FM (88.9), recently faced astation coup as college administrators began toreplace their home-grown programming withprofessional deejays, WHRB is by-and-large studentcontrolled...
...sort, is captain of the best American team ever, as evidenced by its knocking off world champion Brazil 1-0 in a friendly match earlier this year. Foreign-born players like Dooley, who played for the U.S. in the 1994 World Cup, combined with the fast-rising level of home-grown talent have turned the U.S. team from international doormat to contender. "The mix is good for competition within the team," says Steve Sampson, the first native-born American to coach the team. "We are playing with a high level of confidence. We fear no one, and we've learned...
Often, the reaction students from low-income urban areas find themselves expressing to life in the Yard is strongly shaped by unique neighborhood experiences. And their decisions of what life to pursue after they leave the Yard--from careers in I-banking to social services--may have similarly home-grown influences...
...Despite protests from the Bahraini government, MacLeod notes that the unrest is less the result of Iranian meddling than it is a reaction to the minority Sunni government granting little political freedom to the Shiite majority. "Most observers would agree that the Shiite militant movement in Bahrain is home-grown," says MacLeod. "It is partly a pro-democracy movement of the majority of the population demanding increased representation. It is also partly religious, wanting to some extent to establish a more Islamic state." The Shiite dissatisfaction has been fueled by economic inequities. Unlike its Gulf neighbors, Bahrain...