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...Existing programs in financial aid, academic support, and counseling certainly help individual students to adapt but are not sufficient to help develop a safe community for these first-generation college goers. The extraordinary essence that has enabled these students to thrive before Harvard will not readily transfer to their newly privileged roles as Harvard students without a comprehensive program to help them identify and navigate the transparent privileges and outsider status that confront them everyday...

Author: By Chris C. Goodman and Rebecca J. Joseph | Title: An Open Letter to President Faust and the Harvard Community | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...graduation for the festivities. The party will, in many ways, resemble more familiar Western weddings: the veiled bride will wear white as guests feast and dance. Aljawhary and Jou have also been careful to obey Muslim standards regarding courtship, while at the same time trying to adapt timeless traditions to the context of recent Muslim-American immigrant communities. “It’s definitely a challenge because you have to be very creative and you have to be open-minded,” Aljawhary said...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ola B. Aljawhary ’09 and Daniel R. Jou ’08 | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...coaches] told me I’m going to have to step up and be a leader,” Cohen said. “I’m not going to be able to surprise teams anymore. I need to be able to adapt and make myself better...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MALE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: Cohen Leads Scoring Charge | 5/30/2009 | See Source »

...bedrock of our nation," says Azeez, who works at a coral-research and -regeneration facility at the Banyan Tree resort. With enough investment, he reckons the country can not only pioneer methods to mitigate rising waters, but also provide a vital gauge of how nature itself can adapt to the ravages of global warming. Far more populous low-lying countries, from Bangladesh to the Netherlands, will watch with interest. "Very small places can offer very big answers," says Ahmed Moosa, the editor of the online Dhivehi Observer, who has also been appointed the nation's climate envoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Maldives' Struggle to Stay Afloat | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...dead-accurate social barometer. From providing helpful hints for homemakers in the 1950's, catering to the lavish lifestyles and culinary excess of the 80's and satisfying the celeb-hungry, reality-crazed audience of the new millennium, Collins examines how far cooking programs have gone to adapt their content, style and character to both suit and define various moments in the 20th century. Her thorough research is spiced with anecdotes and personal testimonials from chefs, historians and foodies about the world of TV cooking and the eccentric personalities that populate it. Her love of the subject is obvious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Evolution of TV Cooking | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

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