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...requirement that I be comfortable dancing shirtless in go-go boy pants. But the course of investigative journalism never did run smooth, and so after 10 minutes of YouTube research and some Absolut confidence boosters, I felt ready to go make an ass of myself—so to speak...
Arturo Cuevas '12 defeated all of mathematics with his Harvard admission. “I was at calculus tutoring after school,” he said. “My mom (who doesn't speak English very well) had access to my college e-mail and called me to ask what that e-mail meant.” After Cuevas realized just what the e-mail meant, he came to an even more powerful realization. As his teacher continued to solve integrals on the board, Cuevas decided that as a Harvard admit, he should be the one doing the tutoring...
...story to convince a ferryman to lead a rescue party to save several people trapped in a sinking riverboat. Yet later, Huck is not able to figure out that the criminals called The Duke and The King are not real royalty. Huck’s capacity to understand and speak the truth seems to change in every scene...
...Palace insiders say that before Obama's surprise visit, Afghan-U.S. relations had strained to the point where Karzai would speak to only three Americans: Ambassador Karl Eikenberry; General Stanley McChrystal, commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan; and the unnamed CIA station chief. Of those three, Karzai is said to trust only the CIA chief, who reportedly led the special-forces team that protected Karzai on his first forays into southern Afghanistan to turn the Pashtun tribes against Taliban rule. Karzai is said to be leery of Eikenberry, ever since the media leaked the contents of cables...
...while he is no Ali, Pacquiao is an effective speaker, telling crowds about his family's struggle with poverty in an intimate, conversational style. "No notes," he explains. "You speak from deep in your heart. It's easy." Pacquiao is also devout, which could win the support of bloc-voting church groups. "The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God," he tells the crowd while campaigning in Kiamba, where many people wear T-shirts bearing the boxer's face and the slogan, in English, "For God and Country...