Word: shehabuddin
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...Rahmuna Shehabuddin--known to friends as "Elora"--was doing thesis research in her native Bangladesh when she heard the news: Her parents and two sisters were among the millions trapped by the Iraqi army in Kuwait City. Her mother and sisters were released in September, but her father, the ambassador from Bangladesh, would remain a hostage in Baghdad for two weeks, before finally leaving in October...
...Sure, I was worried," Shehabuddin says. "But they were in Lebanon in 1975, so I figured they knew how to handle themselves...
...international student at Harvard, Elora knows how to handle herself, too. After growing up in India, France, Lebanon, Bangladesh and Poland, and attending boarding schools in England, Shehabuddin learned to fend for herself in a foreign culture...
Truth be told, she actually wanted to attend Yale. "Since I hadn't visited the schools, I wanted to choose Yale since everyone [in England] picks Harvard," Shehabuddin admits. "But my parents said, 'You have no basis for that decision.' And so I picked Harvard...
...there's always the problem of connotations. Shehabuddin, whose favorite nosering is a tiny pearl, says she worried about sending the wrong messages by piercing one of her nostrils...