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...overachievers” in the crowd, as a child she, too, was eager to make a name for herself. In fact, as a five-year-old, she took the liberty of scrawling “Samantha Power did this” in orange crayon atop her mother??s newly printed, 300-plus page doctoral dissertation, she recalled...
Hale credits her “Harriet the Spy” antics for the skills that ultimately helped her win the 2009 Louis Begley Prize for Fiction, awarded by the Harvard Advocate, for her short story about a young child who, because of her mother??s cancer diagnosis, develops an obsession with terrifying animals...
Later in the night, Wellesley, Mass. resident Laura Witheford discussed her mother??s recurring cancers, the three children she is raising whose mother died of cancer, and her own fight against breast cancer...
Douglas Muhlestein considered waiting to start freshman year until after he had completed his mission, but didn’t want his first away-from-home experience to be for two straight years, with only four phone calls total (on Christmas Day and Mother??s Day), and no TV or movies allowed. Muhlestein intends to concentrate in computer science, and he says he’s not worried about disrupting his academic plans. “Harvard is really good at letting you leave,” he explains. “They say it?...
...first eight blocks we commended ourselves on surviving both our dinner and our first week in Bogotá, despite my mother??s prediction that I wouldn’t make it past the airport without Pablo Escobar kidnapping me and demanding a ransom that she assured me she would not pay. So far, all seemed quiet on the kidnapping front. The rabbi, at least, seemed relieved...