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...adventure-seeking Harvard students, a typical summer thrill ride can range from navigating among the financial sharks in New York City to tracking down the biological secrets of binobo chimps in the darkest rain forest. For Karin J. Alexander ‘02, a social studies concentrator in Lowell House, adventure was getting attacked by a lion in her homeland, Zimbabwe...
...turn to see a young lion, not more than hip height from the ground-stalking me...I’m vaguely panicked at this point,” says Karin Jane Alexander `02, who was conducting thesis research this summer. Karin and her fiance, Adam, were invited to tea with a distant relative who runs a wildlife orphanage outside of Bulawayo, a large city in the south of the country. Karin stepped out of the car to open the gate, and Adam continued driving up a long driveway. Karin closed the gate behind her, began to wander through a garden...
...than 500 meters away. The lion picked up speed and growled in a “low guttural manner.” “Next thing I know, I’m on the floor, face down-with something patting my head quite vigorously,” says Karin. Meanwhile, Adam and her relative watched with amusement from the comfort of the house. Adam stayed calm once the relative (who in the past was nearly eaten by one of his domesticated lions) assured him that this lion was actually tame. Too bad Karin didn’t know...
That is what has been happening to the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the undisputed political leader of black America for the past generation, since the National Enquirer reported in January that he had fathered an out-of-wedlock child with Karin Stanford. She was the head of the Washington office of Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition during much of their four-year affair. In an attempt to refute the notion that he is mortally wounded, Jackson, 59, has been staging appearances with supportive ministers and Wall Street captains and issuing a barrage of sports cliches ("The ground is no place...
Many tourists who come for the cheap fares--a lot of them students and budget travelers who first used Reykjavik as a stopover on flights to Europe--get hooked on the place and become regulars. "I've been here five times," says Karin Ciescik, 45, a New York insurance broker. "I'm a polar buff. I just love the cold." Jeff Warren, managing director of Britain's Windrush Management, chose Iceland for a company holiday. Why? "If we went to Tenerife, we'd just hang around on the beach and drink, mon, so we decided to branch out," says this...