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...Harvard, and elsewhere, who need to be reminded of this. Behold the glee and malice in a Gawker quote, “Let’s just sum it all up with the obvious: Isn’t it kind of awesome to see an overachieving Indian kid finally do something wrong?” Granted, most people were not nearly as spiteful, but there were a great number who gleaned a great amount of pleasure from this event. It is unfortunate that people enjoy pointing out the failings of seemingly perfect people and even more unfortunate for Kaavya that...
...little kid I was pudgy,” Tunovic says. “I stayed at home and played video games...
...very easy to explain concepts and techniques and schemes to him because he really did want to learn,” Hurd says. “We have a lot of kids that go through the peewee ranks here and they think they know everything by the time they get to seventh, eighth grade. [But] this is a kid who needed to be taught everything, and he was like a sponge...
...Every American today knows an asthmatic kid, but they don’t connect the dots between these kids and the president,” Kennedy said...
...high school teacher in the navy village of Simon's Town. There he met Golden Mgedeza and Solomon Dipeere, both teenage naval cadets from Kwa Thema township outside Johannesburg. Ainslie nurtured their passion for sailing, and offered free lessons to other poor black and mixed-race kids in the surrounding townships. Burricks was one of the keenest. "We had to chase him away to get him to do some schoolwork during exams," Ainslie recalls. For Burricks, sailing provided an escape from the violence of township life. "You grow up thinking that's your way of living," he says...