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After college, Alter found himself at “loose-ends.” In his senior year he had moved off campus with his roommates and had thrown himself into a thesis on the changing nature of American policy during the Vietnam...
...Czech immigrant who came in 1947 to study English at Rutgers. His father stayed in the United States, taking a job as a dishwasher at a Howard Johnson’s just off the New Jersey Turnpike. Meanwhile, amidst the political upheaval in Czechoslovakia, his uncle was thrown into work camp, and his grandfather was made a janitor...
...really excited,” said Currier House Committee secretary Lacey R. Whitmire ’05. “In just a year, she has thrown herself into learning the Harvard system—what classes we’re taking, what we do in our spare time, learning the acronyms of student groups. That’s not an easy task for an outsider, she’s shown a lot of enthusiasm...
...present program has proved a complete failure and, in addition, clearly violates existing anti-trust laws.” Murray told The Crimson in 1952. “I am highly optimistic that it will be thrown out and a new plan substituted...
...costs them a life." In Ruby, S.C., John Shane Ratliff, 32, says he was attracted to the KBR job by the promise of as much as $120,000 a year and a desire to help his country. Instead, he found himself running a gauntlet of rocks as spikes were thrown at his tires. Once while driving, he took a rock to the head, which knocked him unconscious. His lone weapon was a can of ravioli his wife sent in a care package. "They didn't know what it was, something red shaped like that," he says. "Maybe they thought...