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Connors said if a man and a woman both qualify for financial aid, the man may legally receive money from a males-only fund, because the woman will also get the amount of aid she needs--though from a different source...
Dunn said Radcliffe does not harbor hard feelings about the Fay Prize's hiatus this year, even though the College still lists the Frothingham--with its "manliness" qualifications--as a Commencement prize...
...host family to Harvard's international students. When Daisy's husband, Henry, ends their marriage after changing his name to Henri and taking a fancy to all things French (including the Lewis' latest student), Daisy's comfortable, familiar life is turned upside down. Fear not for poor Daisy, though-less than 24 hours later she has already met a new man, a parasitologist named Truman Wolff. Ironically, Truman's daughter, Phoebe, is dating Daisy's son, Sammy, leading to a whole series of plot twists that give new meaning to the term symbiosis...
...fact, the international students, by virtue of the fact that Medwed blatantly exploits them through their ethnic stereotypes. There's an Italian lover, a pert, fashionable Francaise and a few Asian guys who speak broken English, wear black leather jackets and play video games. Perhaps the most insulting portrayal, though, is that of the Lewises' first student, an Indonesian named Pilombaya who is illustrated as entirely ignorant and is compared repeatedly to a whiny child...
...creative ("She's followed the blue equivalent of the yellow brick road and has landed at her own fully personalized Oz")-you many get a laugh out of the ridiculous situations she writes about. Anyone in search of a thoughtful character study or emotional investment will come up short, though, as Medwed overtly explains everything that the reader could otherwise conclude on his own. Host Family has an interesting premise, but never takes it to a captivating level. At one point in the novel, Henry Lewis says to Daisy, "You always settle for less." He could have been talking...