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...summer day at Wellesley College in 1969, the president of its student government walked to the commencement podium. A young woman from middle-class Park Ridge, Illinois, she was the first student ever to address a Wellesley graduating class. She was traveling on a route no one had ever traveled before...
Some Poles think the joys of life overseas can be captured back home. Bozena Wozna spent 2 1/2 years researching and teaching in London before returning last summer to the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science in Czestochowa. "In the beginning, it's great over there. You have more money. You can buy more things. Life is more comfortable," she recalls. "But you have no roots...
...figure out what you want to do, something you don’t get an opportunity to do very often at Harvard. I think I would have been glad if I had applied regardless of the outcome because of what I learned from writing and rewriting all summer long...
...just one day before the siege of Sarajevo, the four-year-old Emina Kobiljar ’10 fled Yugoslavia with her family, headed for a refugee camp in southern Germany where she would live for six years before moving to the United States. This summer she will return, funded by a $10,000 donation from the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Foundation to rebuild a war-devastated athletic center in her hometown, Kolibe Gornje, Bosnia. Kobiljar said she hoped the reconstruction of the athletic center would promote peace by allowing the town to host the neighboring Bosniak, Croat, and Serb communities...
...months and weeks leading up to their Yucatan summit this week - such as his comparing a Bush-approved, 700-mile-long border fence to the Berlin Wall, or calling the illegal immigration issue an "open wound" for U.S.-Mexico relations. Calderon defeated his own left-wing opponent last summer by only half a percentage point, and few countries feel more resentful about Bush's recent snubbing of Latin America than Mexico does. So while Bush rightly considers the free market-minded Calderon his "anti-Chavez" in the region, Calderon knew he could score points with Mexicans who voted against...