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...different tribes. Literacy education classes serve the dual function of “building awareness of community problems” and educating women “so they can vote and pick leaders well,” Hassan said. Sally Dale, who attended the event, said she was particularly struck by the women’s stories of tremendous adversity and inequality. “It was an incredibly inspiring presentation,” Dale said. “We think driving through Boston traffic takes courage. These women have real courage and such incredible resolve to organize and continue...
...Kenny, prefer a "concentric circle" approach to tourism: go out the front door and explore the neighborhood and nearby towns, get to know the locals instead of slavishly following guidebook itineraries. Kenny and her husband Steve Cohen, 59, were in a Munich art gallery filled with Rubenses when it struck her that seeing all the standard tourist highlights was exhausting and there must be a better way to get to know a foreign city. "I hit the wall--I couldn't look at one more painting," she says. To make their travels more manageable and enjoyable, Kenny and Cohen...
...risk it? I had scrutinized my motivation for picking up a grenade, but not the reason I had put myself in range of it. My rationale for going to Iraq as a career milestone no longer struck me as truthful. I already had scrapbooks full of big stories and enough money in the bank. I realized that something else had driven me, an old problem of self-worth: I was good because of what I did, not because of who I was. I had important roles as father, brother, lover and son. But without achieving in some material...
...expressed my frustration that such a major ordeal had seemed to have so little effect on me--I was still the same impatient, competitive and self-critical person I'd always been. If I had acted so nobly, why didn't I feel more content? Wain's response struck me at the time as somewhat facile: the good deed, he said, had left me angry at myself. "You're thinking you could have done the same thing and didn't have to lose the hand. You love a perfect win and didn't get that perfect victory that you wanted...
...loss. Harvard made only seven out of 27 shots on goal. Of those seven, four were scored by senior John Voith and freshman Spencer Livingston, each notching two goals. Connolly provided another respectable effort in goal, making six saves. HARVARD 15, IONA 10 In the night game, Harvard struck out against the Iona squad, dominating the game early on. With the scoreboard reading 5-4, the Crimson pushed forth, mustering seven unanswered goals and taking a convincing 12-4 lead. Scoring for Harvard was spread out, as 11 different members registered points. Garcia remained the lead scorer for the Crimson...