The wife of Peru’s opposition candidate for president credits her time at Hebrew University in Israel with turning her life around, according to The New York Times. “In Israel, I learned that you don’t take no for an answer,” Elaine Karp, wife of candidate Alejandro Toledo, told the Times.
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