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...Every year, there are more and more students who are kind of filtered into this pathless existence,” says Melissa Tran ’10, current president of Harvard College Act On A Dream, in reference to the estimated 65,000 undocumented students who graduate high school each year...
...American success story. One of them ought to have seen this, and that someone, McCullough implies, should have been Teddy. In the Badlands of Dakota, while recovering from the deaths (on the same day) of his mother and first wife Alice Lee, Teddy, at 25, wrote of "melancholy pathless plains" and "deathlike stillness"-the moral geography of Edgar Allan Poe. Here he came as close as he ever would to confessing to his demons...
...darkly handsome young mystic from India was virtually considered to be a new Messiah by members of the Order of the Star in the East, the society built around him. Then suddenly in 1929, Jiddu Krishnamurti dissolved the order and repudiated the very idea of followers. "Truth is a pathless land," he said. "And you cannot approach it by any religion, any sect. You must look within yourselves for the incorruptibility of the self. My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free...
...NEFA, the Chinese struck first on Oct. 20. Some 20,000 burp-gun-toting infantry stormed over Thag La ridge and swept away a 5,000-man Indian brigade strung out along the Kechilang River. The surprise was complete, and dazed survivors of the Chinese attack struggled over the pathless mountains, where hundreds died of exposure. In Ladakh the Chinese scored an even bigger victory, occupying the entire 14,000 square miles that Peking claims is Chinese territory...
...They were led by one A. Z. Phizo (who, lacking a Christian name, took the first and last letters of the alphabet). Phizo, 56, a mission-educated Naga, guided his warriors on ruthless raids in which they slaughtered hundreds of villagers and Indians, then retreated into the jungles and pathless mountain terrain...