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Beah escaped this fate and thrived, he says, through pure luck. But he's one of those very quick studies who could have succeeded anywhere. He learned to kill fast, and he learned how to blend in at an American high school fast. Even in Paris, he looks as relaxed as any tourist. Of course, what he did and endured has long contrails. His migraines have gone, but the faces of people on the street will sometimes remind him of people he killed and of the very bad days of his youth. It's not what he did, though, that...
...scholarship program, effects of any federal grant increase would be felt less here than at some other universities. “For students at institutions throughout the country that don’t have significant institutional resources, this is even more important,” she said. Democrats were quick to cast the potential Pell Grant increase as an early prize of their newfound control on Capitol Hill. “I definitely think that the fact that this is coming up now is a product of the Democratic control of Congress,” said Brigit M. Helgen...
...each year, veterans forget the choice before they arrive in the Swiss mountain town and get on with their usual Davos pastimes - counting heads of government; balancing champagne flutes and canapés; sneaking off for a quick run or two on the slopes (and since you ask, yes, a constant dusting during the week made the pistes gorgeous when the sun finally came out on Sunday, as the photo opposite proves). Plus, there's now celeb spotting, even if it is of a peculiarly Davos kind - by which I mean that nobody misses Sharon Stone or Brangelina, but delegates...
...announced topic of the conference was "The Shifting Power Equation," and for once - at least for me - it worked, coming unbidden to the mind during countless quick conversations. Whether it was the growing significance of the Asian economies as compared with the Atlantic ones, or the extent to which technology has distributed economic clout from producers to consumers - and in the media business, turned consumers into producers themselves - the idea of a power shift seemed neatly to sum up what was on people's minds. Some examples...
...that we couldn’t fudge it and that we had to go forward in a way that was intellectually honest,” said Litman, a former Crimson editor. “She’s just the straightest of straight shooters and the quickest of quick studies...