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Each year, as the beginning of June approaches, Harvard Yard gets a face lift. This year, as the University prepares to host Commencement exercises on June 6, is no exception...
Naturally, I was overjoyed by all the attention given me by these fancy institutions. When my friends and teachers heard of my acceptance, they showered me with praise. At parties, strangers would lift their eyebrows in admiration, or so I fancied. Normally overlooked, I had become the one who had gotten into Harvard...
...militant Shi'ites to power. "During the war, we were praying for the allied pilots," confesses a young Christian woman browsing at a stall selling women's clothing. The majority of her fellow believers, the woman asserts, want to leave Iraq for good if Saddam keeps his promise to lift the ban on foreign travel this week. Many Iraqis, however, believe the government will require those who venture abroad to leave behind their money and relatives, making emigration almost impossible...
...flights. But what Sununu did once he got off the planes is beginning to raise serious ethical questions and, in at least one case, points to the possibility of unlawful conflict of interest. During a three-day ski trip to Aspen, Colo., last December, Sununu in effect received free lift tickets, lodging and meals in return for speaking at an annual ski-industry conference. In addition, the $802 round-trip airfare for his wife Nancy was paid for by the American Ski Federation. The federation is a Washington-based lobbying arm for the ski industry -- not a nonprofit educational group...
After the first stories broke, officials unfriendly to Sununu quietly pushed a second, more damaging wave of allegations: Sununu not only made excessive use of Air Force planes, but when he traveled to ski resorts to give speeches, he sometimes also accepted free lodging, lift tickets and airfare for his wife. Such charges embarrassed the ethics-sensitive Bush Administration, while + providing a tempting target for Sununu's many enemies. They include...