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...President until he concluded that it was what the country needed. Because -- or in spite -- of his year as an exchange student at Columbia University in 1959, Yakovlev dislikes and distrusts the U.S. and considers it dominated by right-wing thinking. Sovietologist Dimitri Simes says he is "unusually intellectually curious, a person with imagination, with vision...
What made this tolerance so special was the fact that it seemed so natural. There were no student protests--no chants, signs or pins. It was just a bunch of easy-going, curious high school students, who didn't look twice at an interracial couple or two women holding hands...
Joyriding has become an addiction among the hoods, as the hundreds of repeat offenders who have been arrested by cops or shot through the knees by I.R.A. gunmen attest. It's also a curious form of rebellion; to most hoods, both the "peelers" (the cops) and the "Provos" (Provisional I.R.A.) are hostile authority figures, equally loathed and feared...
...story could easily have ended here, and in a not very original way: another aspiring artist surrenders to the exigencies of the real world. But Turow's arrival at Harvard came with one of those little anomalies that inspire curious readers to turn the page. While explaining to his agent his decision to abandon literature, Turow had mentioned the possibility of someone's doing a nonfiction book about the experiences of first-year law students. He received a $4,000 contract to do just that. So he went to Harvard not only to study law but also, as he says...
...College administration When he broaches the subject of Harvard College News, a newsletter recently created and published by the College's administration. The journal solicits advertising from local businesses, directly competing with dozens of student publications for the limited ad dollars from Harvard Square companies. "It's rather curious that the organization that's intended to help student organizations is competing with them," he says...