Word: pauling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...definitely a drawback to Harvard, when they would not accept AP scores, where at [similar] institutions, this might have been possible," said John Paul Rollert '00, chair of the Student Affairs Committee of the Undergraduate Council...
...summers ago, I was visiting Israel and Egypt with Paul, my best friend from high school. Our El-Al flight from London disembarked in Jerusalem at 4 a.m. local time, and most of the passengers filtered through the line for Israeli nationals. We entered the foreign passport line along with 50 others. When the immigration agent saw a visa stamp in my U.S. passport, she asked me dryly, "You were in Pakistan...
...glad I could finally answer "No" and show him Paul, my half-Jewish, half-Italian, all-American friend. But Paul was nowhere to be found, scouring through the baggage claim. I just stood there, scared...
Eventually, I found Paul and everything was straightened out. But as an American, coming from our culture of individual rights, I was offended by the fact that I, one among dozens of passengers, was pulled aside simply because of my last name and the way I looked. And for the first time in my life, someone saw me first and foremost as a Muslim, and doubted my legitimacy as a person because...
Wilson sees definite parallels between his situation and that portrayed on screen. "That's just my life and I love it," he says. The actors in these two movies, Rupert Everett and Paul Rudd, also have a role in the appeal to Wilson. "Can I drool much more? I don't think so," Wilson says...