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...statement, calling the nomination a “terrific choice” when rumors of Carter’s potential nomination first circulated. Though Carter is a leading expert on arms control, he has not spent his career in either government procurement or with the weapons industry besides his stint as Assistant Secretary of Defense. Instead Carter, who graduated from Yale with a degree in physics and medieval history and earned his doctorate at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, has worked at Harvard since 1984. —Staff writer Lauren D. Kiel can be reached at lkiel@fas.harvard.edu...
...better life in the United States. But disaster seems to be the family’s travelling companion, and as her mother’s mental instability becomes crippling, Joon’s father leaves the family. Unable to convince her mother to speak six months after a hospital stint, Joon abruptly leaves home at the age of 13. The rest of her adolescent life is spent on the streets, in and out of shelters, motels, and abandoned apartment buildings, and the bulk of narration is devoted to the steady incineration of childlike innocence.As Joon experiences increasingly disturbing events...
...many people. By exposing his adultery and painting him, however briefly, as a suspected murderer, the case torpedoed Condit's career and left his reputation in tatters. He was ousted in a 2002 primary challenge, and left the House when his term expired in 2003. Aside from a tumultuous stint running two Baskin-Robbins franchises, he and his wife have filed several lawsuits to rehabilitate his shattered image. Levy's family, meanwhile, was forced to endure the prolonged nightmare of their daughters' disappearance under a media spotlight - and a long-delayed wait for justice. "This helps a little," Susan Levy...
...hockey team. I recently found myself at the Beanpot, an annual hockey tournament between Boston College, Boston University, Harvard, and Northeastern. It was probably the closest I’d been to an ice rink since the second grade, when I quit skating after a traumatizing two-week stint with an impatient instructor. We had different philosophies about encouragement. The arena was packed—with BU fans, with BC fans, with Northeastern fans. Representing Harvard? Two small rows of band. I’m not going to call myself a super sports fan. I left the Harvard-Yale tailgate...
...tomb in Colombia than a prison cell in the United States," Escobar unleashed a wave of car bombings and assassinations that forced the Colombian government to water down extradition laws. Cowed officials even built Escobar a five-star jailhouse, with a Jacuzzi, discotheque and fake waterfall, for a brief stint behind bars before the drug lord was gunned down by police...