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Raised in competitive Ivy League rowing towns, captain Pat Mulcahy and fellow senior Matt Young were brought up to hate Harvard, their hometown schools’ rival on the water.But in the end, the two lightweight standouts couldn’t resist the call of the Charles.Hailing from Ithaca, N.Y., and Philadelphia, Penn., respectively—the homes of lightweight crew powerhouses Cornell and Penn—Mulcahy and Young have long been exposed to top-notch crews.By living in places where crew was a prominent sport, the two benefited from great coaching and plenty of local competition when they...
Over 100 people were killed in a terrorist attack on hundreds of thousands of supporters who were welcoming former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto ’73 in her hometown of Karachi. Bhutto, who had been exiled from her country for almost a decade, was rushed away from the scene of the attacks, unhurt. Bhutto had brokered a power-sharing deal with President Pervez Musharraf that allowed her to return from an eight-year exile ordered by a former president on charges of corruption. One of Bhutto’s former political advisors expressed concern about her ability...
...poet Mahmoud Darwish, Syrian poet Adonis), an elusive homeland has always been on Sinan Antoon's mind. Antoon left Baghdad in 1991 after the first Gulf War to study in the U.S. Now an associate professor of Arab-Islamic culture at New York University, he returned to his bedeviled hometown for the first time in the spring of 2003, to co-direct the anguished documentary About Baghdad, following the American-led invasion and occupation of Iraq...
...feel compelled to ask why the heck the committee feels that immunizations are needed to travel to my hometown...
...most vocal detractors of birth-order research question less the findings of the science than the methods. To achieve any kind of statistical significance, investigators must assemble large samples of families and look for patterns among them. But families are very different things-distinguished by size, income, hometown, education, religion, ethnicity and more. Throw enough random factors like those into the mix, and the results you get may be nothing more than interesting junk...