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...unaccustomed to studying for tests or attending large lecture classes.“It was not a fun transition,” his roommate Scott remembers. “It was a change for him. Big time. Freshman year there was definitely a little bit of shell-shock.”For Jentoft, the confusion lies in the arena of social norms. “There are subtleties that I don’t always understand,” she says.Handling boys, for example.“I have an issue with not knowing which cues mean what...
...ignorant outsider—this despite his being from Brookline. Around the same time, de facto Red Sox chief John L. Harrington proposed to build a new stadium for his team. Although the stadium plans were ultimately shelved, local pols took the Hyde Park native seriously and agreed to shell out $200 million to aid in construction costs...
...time. But the challenge didn’t phase Denenberg—“I just rolled over him,” he said. His place on the team secured with strong singles and, eventually, doubles play, Denenberg came out of his shell while maintaining the discipline that had brought him success. “By the end of sophomore year he had shown more commitment and support for the other players,” said co-captain Gideon Valkin, Denenberg’s doubles partner. “That’s a very big deal...
...that make sizable investments in Iran's giant oil and gas sector, like the 1995 Iran-Libya Sanctions Act, remain in force. The measure calls for U.S. sanctions on foreign companies that invest more than $20 million a year in Iran's energy sector, and last week Royal Dutch Shell admitted that could put in jeopardy its projected $10 billion investment in an Iranian gas field in cooperation with Spain's Repsol. Shell Chief Executive Jeroen van der Veer said, "I would like to emphasize that we have here quite a dilemma. This is Iran. They are the number...
...have been so slow that we will probably be late,'' the other man added. ''What's the meeting about?'' I asked. ''There's no need to ask so many questions,'' the activist said. ''We would not be here if we did not have authority. All the former members of Shell have to attend this meeting. It's very important. Don't you know the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has started?'' The servants looked anxious as I left. We all knew that since Mao took over, innumerable people had left their homes during the political campaigns and never come back...