Word: zakaria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before he arrived at Wigglesworth Hall, Arshad Zakaria attended the Cathedral School in Bombay, a private institution operated by an Anglo-Scottish educational society. In his first two weeks as an American resident--he arrived a week early to work on dorm crew, which he calls "an original experience"--he has had to make his share of adjustments. "In India, we had domestic help," he recalls wistfully. "I have to do much more here--you can see the state of my bed." The bed is, in fact, remarkably out of control, even by Wigglesworth standards...
...astonishing encounter has considerably shortened Arshad's culture gap. "I was looking at a sign-up sheet for co-ed soft-ball, he remembers, "and saw 'A. Zakaria' written in. So I thought, 'What is this, some kind of joke,' because I hadn't signed up for co-ed softball. But then I looked in the face-book, and there was a picture of Aamir Zakaria. I finally met him at the ice-cream bash--It turns out that he's my first cousin. I never knew he was coming to Harvard--I'd never even...