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...upbringing, but a symbol of Boston pride. My next-door neighbor, a current sophomore at Northeastern University, never had a Boston accent growing up. Peculiarly, he affected one during his freshman year in college. According to him, this linguistic metamorphosis was inspired by a desire to prove to his classmates that he is a local...
Four years ago, when Scott Denenberg was choosing a college, he was told that if he was looking to play tennis, Harvard was not the place for him. Denenberg made Harvard his place nonetheless, and, through three-and-a-half years of grueling work, proved he belongs on the courts across the river every bit as much as he belongs on the cobblestones of Cambridge. With his exemplary ethic, he established his place on the men’s tennis team and earned the respect of his teammates and coaches and the honor of the co-captain title. Arriving...
...between the Episcopal church and some of its runaway parishes. That is a lovely sentiment. But its premise - that American conservatives and liberals will end up living together in relative harmony under the banner of an Episcopal Church that somehow still responds to the wishes of the Communion - may prove tragically unfounded...
...sentiments are reminiscent of those expressed a quarter of a century ago when his uncle, Prince Andrew, then also 22, prevailed against opponents who feared that his participation in the Falklands conflict could prove at best a distraction and, at worst, a liability to his colleagues. Instead, as a helicopter pilot on the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible, he acquitted himself with honor during an episode that he described in an interview with TIME as "an adventure...
...younger Windsor of taking a swing at him as the prince left a nightclub. That youthful vim and vigor will be directed against a more dangerous enemy in the months ahead. But if the experience of his uncle is anything to go by, the skepticism of the media could prove harder to vanquish...