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...this stage of life, the last thing someone wants is to stand out as different. But blending in isn't easy in my case. In my religion, it's mandatory to pray five times a day, including one time that happens to be during school hours. When I'm out with my friends playing sports or hanging out, I sometimes have to go aside and do my prayers. My friends know what I'm doing, but that doesn't make it any less awkward. I really stand out during the month of Ramadan, when I have to fast, not eating...
...move exposed a rare flash of dissent from University’s seven-member governing body, which appeared to stand by Summers this spring amid harsh criticism from professors...
...think a lot of people just acted differently when the scholarship committee was there,” he conceded. “It is a game. They did play the game well. They just made themselves stand out more among the students...
...first, it’s uncertain what would make Jeremy N.K. Tran ’09 stand...
...Fred Moore Vinson was a glorified drinking buddy of President Harry Truman's whose sudden death was hailed by fellow Justice Felix Frankfurter as "the first indication I have ever had that there is a God." Justice Potter Stewart's friends said Stewart resigned partly because he couldn't stand Warren Burger any longer; Burger, he said, was like the show captain on an ocean liner who entertains passengers in the dining room while the real captain steers the ship...