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It’s 9:30 pm, and the only thing standing between my bed and me is a steaming cup of milk—straight from the cow. I’m sitting at the dinner table with my home-stay family in the Tanzanian village of Bangata. We’re all huddled around three cell phones as our source of light since the electricity went out again and I’m staring at a cup of thick, whitish liquid. There are seven of us in total, but no one is really talking. We maxed...

Author: By Megan A. Shutzer | Title: The Study Abroad Burden | 11/16/2008 | See Source »

...should be straight forward that studying abroad is for studying, but when your home-stay brother asks you for money to pay his school fees or your neighbor can’t afford malaria medicine, the line is suddenly blurred. It gets back to the idea of power and privilege...

Author: By Megan A. Shutzer | Title: The Study Abroad Burden | 11/16/2008 | See Source »

...continued to lag, and various members of the faculty implied-or said outright-that he would never amount to anything. The athletic coaches disagreed: the following year Bud won letters in track and football, finished first in the school decathalon, and set a record by doing one thousand straight push-ups. He might have done more, but a teacher, worried that the youth would strain his heart, ordered him to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Latest Brando Bio | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

Good Glug. Beaujolais Nouveau arrives in stores and restaurants on Nov. 20. Vintner George DuBoeuf, who produces some 30 million bottles of the stuff a year, predicts a full-bodied vintage for 2008, since the September growing season was dry; the wine, which goes straight from the vine to your table without aging, is meant to be drunk immediately. Look for uncorking events in Miami, New York and Las Vegas, which will celebrate the wine's first tasting at 12:01 p.m., according to tradition and French law - or just check your local wine shop for the $10-$12 bottles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel News: Teeny, Tiny NYC Hotel Rooms for $99 | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...outscored its opponents by an average of two touchdowns, Harvard must keep in mind a particularly sobering statistic—the Crimson is just 1-12 in its last 13 visits to Penn dating back to 1982, and prior to its 2004 victory, it had lost 11 straight at Franklin Field.However, Harvard has its sights set on starting a new streak, and there is plenty of reason to believe it will find a fresh start.The Crimson put on a show at Harvard Stadium last weekend, outgunning the Lions 42-28. Senior Chris Pizzotti threw for 376 yards and 4 first...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Top of the League | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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