Word: priore
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...these unions, without doubt, are successful ones. But some overseas marriages can be problematic. At a MOIA conference on the issue in February, Girija Vyas, chairperson of India's National Commission for Women, noted that brides going abroad can suffer from culture shock if they have had no prior exposure to the West. Their overseas-raised spouses, meanwhile, can find themselves pressured into a traditional marriage by émigré parents. The combination can result in loveless, incompatible relationships and eventually, divorce. The worst cases, however, are those "where NRI men come to India seeking either huge dowries or 'holiday...
...response to increased alcohol abuse seen in UHS statistics and the media, the College began experimenting with an amnesty policy during the 2002-2003 school year. Prior to that year, admissions to UHS for alcohol-related issues had never risen above 60 cases a year, according to Director of Alcohol and Other Drug Services Ryan M. Travia. A year later, total cases had risen to 123. The year following, they rose again...
Indeed, this danger makes the logic of hyper-assimilationist Asian Americans very fatally flawed. For them, and for me, mainstream American values become a baseline assumption, instituted and enforced by pressures of environment. An understanding of prior values and circumstances is rarely given extensive thought...
...Harvard sailing team hit the waves again this weekend, but continued its recent trend of inconsistency in placing second, sixth, 10th, and 13th in four regattas.The Crimson’s top two sailors—seniors Kyle Kovacs and Elyse Dolbec—had the week off, and prior to the weekend slate, Harvard saw itself slip in the national polls: the Crimson co-eds dropped from fifth to seventh in the country and the women dropped from fourth to eighth.“We haven’t been sailing as well as we can,” sophomore...
...past six years, Laursen-Strecker recalls the shift from high school to collegiate crew, recognizing it as a contrast in terms of training and technical focus on the water. “In high school, [the Head of the Charles] was the culmination of all the training prior to the race,” Larsen-Strecker says. “Fall season would start two weeks into August, four weeks earlier than here, [and] Head of the Charles would be the highlight of the fall. Everything was less exciting.”As opposed to high school rowing, the regatta...