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...talk about it overmuch,” writes Willig’s friend Elizabeth W. Mellyn in an e-mail. Mellyn, a fifth-year doctoral student in history—who, as it happens, is working on The Relic Thieves, a young-adult novel set in fifteenth-century Italy—knows something about balancing fiction with graduate-level history...
...areas, Kenya would need annual investments on the order of $1.5 billion for its Sauris, with donors filling most of that financing gap, since the national government is already stretched beyond its means. Instead, donor support for investment in rural Kenya is perhaps $100 million, or a mere one-fifteenth of what is needed. And Kenya's debt service to the rich world is several hundred million dollars per year. Kenya's budget is still being drained by the international community, not bolstered by it. This is all the more remarkable since Kenya is a new and fragile democracy that...
Kaplan says that it took him as many as 20 hours to complete a scholarship application in the beginning, but by his fifteenth application he could sometimes crank one out in an hour...
...burgoening music taste, my aunt and uncle from California sent me Blonde and Blonde, a more sophisticated Dylan album, for my fifteenth birthday, along with a Janis Joplin CD. I took to Janis more at first; after all she was better for holding my hairbrush like a microphone and screaming along. But the Dylan crept up on me, with quirky lines like “Mona Lisa must’ve had the Highway Blues, you can tell by the way she smiled,” which struck me as incredibly witty—and true. When he sang...
Matt Knowles skippered Harvard’s A-division into sixteenth place, while the B-division boat, with sophomore Pat Mauro at the helm, took fifteenth...