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With more than 4,600 members in North America and a growing membership in Europe, The Right Stuff offers affiliates of top-tier universities and colleges an alternative to the standard, hit-or-miss dating many, like Hoffer, encounter after graduation...
Touchings said membership costs $70 for six months of access to brief profiles of members of the opposite sex. If a student is currently enrolled at a school or graduated from college since 1993, the fee is only $35. For members under 32, subsequent memberships, after the first six months, are free of charge...
...many Iraqi army officers, Abu Laith (the alias of a Baath Party member from Fallujah and former captain in Saddam's 6th Armored Division) found himself out of a job when the U.S. dissolved both the Baath Party and the Iraqi military in 2003. His army commission and party membership, formerly twin keys to success in the old Iraq, were now liabilities. For months, he stayed in his house, depressed. "Iraqis thought it was a great honor to be an officer in the army," he said. "I'd lost my honor...
...Iraq administrator, he boasted that two-thirds of his current 12,000-man force were either Iraqi Special Forces or otherwise in the security services. Many of these men "became Baathists by force," he said, because to advance in the army - and in most of Iraqi society - party membership was mandatory...
...fair, I skimmed it very carefully, and I found one important morsel. Having just finished a hellish senior year that involved a taxing battle between the student newspaper and the high school administration, I was glad to read that the Harvard faculty believed that “By accepting membership in the University, an individual joins a community ideally characterized by free expression, free inquiry, intellectual honesty, respect for the dignity of others, and openness to constructive change.” And for a large part of my experience here, this has been true. All of my classes have attempted...