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...Time disparity is also reflected in an observation made by a classmate at our 50th reunion. At the time we started, the Spanish-American War was as remote as World War II is to the current class. The Spanish-American War seems impossibly distant. One has to conclude that WWII seems that way to your class. Consider life as a one-way street. Although one’s choices of concentration, vocation, and life partner are not necessarily irrevocable, they are not limitless. Give these choices some rational thought. A degree from Harvard won’t protect you from...
Last year, 380,000 Colombians were forced off their land amid fighting between rebels, paramilitaries and the army, a 24% increase from 2007's figure, according to the Bogotá-based human-rights group Codhes (the Spanish acronym for the Human Rights and Displacement Office). Colombian officials, in turn, put the number of displaced at 294,000 for just the first six months of last year. "It's the million-dollar question," Marie-Helene Verney, spokeswoman for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Colombia, says of the perplexing trend. "Something is going on." (See pictures...
...Joseph and Rose Kennedy’s nine children. Kennedy followed in the footsteps of his father and older brothers by enrolling at Harvard in the fall of 1950. At the end of his freshman year, Kennedy was suspended after he was caught having another student take his Spanish A final exam in his place. Both the student, William A. Frate ’54, and Kennedy were asked to take a year off, and Kennedy spent the next two years serving in the U.S. Army as a military policeman in Paris before re-enrolling at Harvard in the fall...
...Kennedy was not always the beacon of courage and determination his eulogizers have made him out to be. As a freshman at Harvard, he worried his grades would jeopardize his eligibility to play football, so he had a friend take a Spanish exam in his place. Both were thrown out for two years but returned on good behavior, and Kennedy graduated...
...church that tells the story of the city over the years. It anchors a neighborhood once known for crime and drugs and violence, now a fizzing mix of college kids and old Irish and new immigrants and young families and stores that offer "Indian, Pakistani, Middle Eastern, Asian, Spanish, and American Groceries." In the days before, many thousands had come to pay their respects...