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...opposite in the eyes of their international observers, almost gooey at first with their friendliness, but needing a lot of time and energy before yielding any real bite. “It’s so easy to make friends in America, unlike back home,” says Samuel M. Kabue ’06, who is from Kenya. “They are so warm and open.” But another Sam (Palmer-Amaning ’05), this time of the Polish-Ghanaian variety (his mother is the former, for those who are wondering), jumps...
...that students don’t even know they can apply to Harvard. “Most Kenyan students are not yet fully aware of how to carry out the application process to U.S. universities, mainly because they have no one to guide them,” says Kenyan Samuel M. Kabue ’06. Even if students plan on submitting an application, differing secondary education structures can put candidates at a disadvantage. “Most people don’t know how an American liberal arts education is structured,” says German student Werner Schaefer...
...alderman on behalf of the club owner, urging that E2 be allowed to remain open despite its transgressions. E2's owner, Dwain Kyles, has been friends with Jackson since Kyles was a child. And Kyles is, like Jackson, a bona fide member of the black political establishment. His father Samuel (Billy) Kyles was a close friend of Martin Luther King Jr. and was with King and Jackson the day King was assassinated. Samuel Kyles later opened a Memphis office of Jackson's Operation PUSH. The younger Kyles served on the successful U.S. House campaign of Jesse Jackson Jr. Kyles...
Angelique, a pretty painting student (Audrey Tautou), is deliriously in love with Loic, a handsome, if married, cardiologist (Samuel Le Bihan). Flowers are presented, endearments murmured, trysts arranged. It does not matter to Angelique when romantic joy turns to anguish. She will stand by her man. It does matter that the tense, well-wrought story we have been watching is a total fantasy. It exists only in the love-addled imagination of its heroine...
Although never a Nobel Laureate—which some say is a result of Borges’ politics—the writer shared the first Prix Formentor with Irish poet Samuel Beckett in 1961. The award, given to writers judged to have made a lasting contribution to world literature, led to a shower of invitations that ultimately brought Borges to the United States and Harvard, where he delivered the Norton Lectures (recently published in a collection, This Craft of Verse...