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...pleasantries. But sometimes inquirers mean something more, though they might not say it out loud. What if they send you to Iraq? Do you like shooting people? Are you just doing it for the money? Isn’t the military really sexist? Female cadets like Williams and Waterman walk a difficult line. As women in ROTC, they’re a minority within a minority. They may never do as many push-ups as the male cadets, but they want to prove themselves as soldiers. It can feel like a dual life, slipping out of combat boots and into...
...Germany often arrive at Harvard fitter, older, and more mature (at least in riflery skills) than the average 18-year-old freshman. Myat San, from Singapore, faced two and a half years of service after graduating from high school. And the first three months of training were no walk in the park. “A lot of people come out with injuries, heat stroke, broken bones, broken ankles,” he says. Myat San left the army after two years to attend Harvard on a military scholarship. When he returns to Singapore, he plans to complete his term...
...great parade up Fifth Avenue. We stood in the biting cold for hours—and then marched for hours more—as an awful mix of rain and snow blew south into our faces. Despite the terrible weather, hundreds and hundreds of AOH members turned out to walk behind their banner, smiling despite the cold and the stinging wind. As I joined the thousands who marched and saw the countless spectators who cheered us on, I realized we all knew what the fuss was about. On this one day, Irish-Americans throng the streets and fill...
Even in 50 years, when the Houses are clustered around the student center of present-day dreams and stories of the walk from Mather to Pfoho have reached epic proportions (uphill...both ways), undergraduates will still be sharing money, space, books, and time with their graduate peers. The sooner this becomes a good thing, the better...
...love IHOP,” he said. “It will be nice, because I don’t have to travel all the way to Allston. Now I can just walk there...