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...years old when I began to show symptoms of autism: not talking, repetitious behavior and tantrums. Not being able to communicate in words was a great frustration, so I screamed. Loud, high-pitched noises hurt my ears like a dentist's drill hitting a nerve. I would shut out the hurtful stimuli by rocking or staring at sand dribbling through my fingers...
...past, conflict in India ebbed and flowed, with orgies of bloodletting erupting then subsiding. Now, at least in Gujarat, the hostility is relentless. The passageways through ancient city walls that used to link Shahpur to a Hindu neighborhood on the other side have been welded shut in a permanent divide. Armed with stones and petrol bombs, the young Muslims from Gujarat's camps and ghettos now look?and think?like their Palestinian counterparts. "Every man and woman here has a volcano in his or her heart," says Qureishi. "If defending our home is terrorism, then terrorism is starting here." Noting...
...Harvard Coach Joe Walsh opted to use the righthander in the relief role he has thrived in over the last few weeks. That move paid off when Wahlberg shut down a Dartmouth rally in the first game en route to a 2.1-inning save. It was his fifth straight successful appearance from the bullpen and his fourth save of the year...
...accidentally released and circulated in April. More than 100 students rallied in front of the club the following Saturday night during a party, and that Tuesday, Dean of the College John B. Fox ’59 and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III asked the club to shut down. The previous fall the club had closed for a month when 10 initiates were sent to University Health Services after consuming too much alcohol, but this time the club refused to obey administrators...
...prominent positions—took notice of these problems. Under media scrutiny, then-Mass. State Treasurer Joseph D. Malone ’78, once a member of Pi Eta’s graduate board, severed ties with the club in April 1991. Later that year, the graduates decided to shut the place down. “They got tired of the police showing up every weekend,” Epps explains, adding he was “pleasantly surprised” by their decision...