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BORN TO WEALTHY PARENTS, Vilma Espín, Cuba's unofficial First Lady, could have chosen a quiet life of opulence. Instead, the MIT-educated chemical engineer shouldered rifles, donned combat fatigues and joined Cuba's 1950s revolution alongside her husband Raúl. A powerful member of Cuba's Communist Party, she accom-panied her divorced brother-in-law Fidel Castro to events and, as longtime president of the Federation of Cuban Women, became a respected voice for women's rights...
DEFINITION kon-flikt ko-ko n: Profits from the cocoa trade used to finance civil war in Africa's Ivory Coast...
Such writers as Hanif Kureishi have pushed immigrant longing against the liberations of rock 'n' roll before, but never with the sweetness and forgiving candor of Manzoor. The night he discovers Springsteen, thanks to his Sikh buddy, he had spent the evening massaging his father's feet. The effect of "The Boss" is so galvanic that his pal actually shaves off his beard and abandons his ritual turban. But Manzoor himself never has the heart to turn his back on his parents entirely, noting with typical wryness: "By high school my friends were starting to drink and I was starting...
...Eric N. Jacobsen, the Emery professor of chemistry and member of the faculty committee that advised the presidential search, says that Keohane “stood out†during her frequent sessions with the committee...
...early admission, were among the most productive recruiting periods of the entire year both domestically and internationally. We will be aided in our new outreach program by ground-breaking research by Freed Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby ’88 and Larsen Professor of Public Policy Christopher N. Avery ’88, which will allow us to identify unusually promising students from communities that rarely or never send applicants to the College or its peer institutions...