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...Education and Professional Training provides scholarships to top Ivorian students like Fofana studying abroad, lightening the burden of the expensive tuition at elite universities in hopes that those students will later return —or at least contribute—to their native country. “It wasn??t necessarily an incentive in and of itself, because I already knew I was planning on participating in the development of Côte d’Ivoire,” says Fofana. “Still, the scholarship reminds you of your gratitude...
...wasn??t long before Zornow tasted his first morsel of success. “Right when I got the turntables pretty much, they asked me to DJ a pool party for our middle school graduation.” Who needs Ibiza, or, for that matter, Mather Lather...
...Christianity began last summer at Wal-Mart, when I saw a teen New Testament amongst the romance novels and bargain blenders. Since I’m Jewish, I’d never gotten to read the Holy Bible and was quite curious. Sadly, it lacked a barcode; the cashier wasn??t able to sell it to me despite her declaration that not owning it “was a shame, because that’s one good book to have.” I took her words to heart and began my quest to understand an essential literary...
...official Harvard campus rep for Kiehl’s cosmetics. And if the sparsely attended store event at Keihl’s Newbury Street boutique was any indication of campus initiatives to come, then Manglani was sure to have a tough task at hand. “Our turnout wasn??t as high as we wanted,” Manglani says. “It was cold outside, and people had class. It’s very hard to convince Harvard students to leave campus sometimes. And that was one of the challenges we ran into...
...football,” which bore a striking resemblance to soccer. Meanwhile, Harvard had been playing their own version, based roughly on the rules of rugby. Ever the football snobs, Harvard declined an invitation to hash out official rules for the game alongside Columbia, Princeton, Rutgers and Yale. It wasn??t until 1874, when Harvard played against McGill University, that the birth of intercollegiate football was officially recognized. Harvard’s elitism won out in 1875 in the first Harvard-Yale match-up. Yale was forced to concede to Harvard’s superior athletic authority...