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...same shops, worshiping at the same churches. Trouble might seem unavoidable. Yet Genevieve Uwamariya, a Catholic nun who lost her entire family to genocide, has since 1998 run a project in which more than 400 killers have met and talked with the families of their victims. A tall, slim, dark woman with graying hair, she says that one of the participants is the man who killed her father: "When he asked to see me I was unsure. But I said to myself, 'I need to be an example. I cannot tell people to do this if I cannot...
...only recall its stubborn refusal to move winter finals from January to December. And, after Tufts Dean Charles Inouye last year derided Harvard students as “essentially a lazy bunch,” the prospect that University Hall would take advice from its Medford neighbors seems especially slim. Yet, College officials would do well to look for culinary—if not academic—inspiration just two stops up the Red Line: for Tufts has devised a meal plan that makes Harvard’s look positively second-rate...
...said the unstable political climate, proposals for massive tax cuts and a slim Republican majority that has unified the House and Senate for the first time in years make predicting next year’s budget unwise...
...book's narrative pulse quickens with the onset of World War II, when Mountstuart is assigned intelligence work and becomes embroiled in the affairs of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the former looking "like a miniature American film star, slim and dapper." Up to this point, Mountstuart has managed to skim lightly over the surface of the century, only rarely involving himself deeply with anyone or anything. But the war leaves him a sunken wreck--physically intact, spiritually destroyed...
...Harvard Bhangra Team, led by Apurva K. Patel ’03, has been displaying their contemporary brand of the traditional Punjabi dance for years, but this is the first semester in which a slim majority of the members have no Indian roots...