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...writer (Vance) and artist (Burr), who never worked together again and neither of whom went on to produce much of anything even remotely as interesting. [Update: they are now working on a sequel, I am told.] Kings originates from Vance's days as a playwright of Depression-era, ash-can style dramas. Set in the early 1930s, the book follows the adventures of the 12-year-old Freddie Bloch, a working-class kid forced by circumstances to hit the railroad tracks of America, and enter the world of the destitute and homeless. Using convincing period detail and mixing it with...
...largest employer, with more than 800 workers. Salaries start at $16.50 an hour, and the benefits at this German company are, well, positively European. In one of its factories along the Blue River, a row of mammoth 2400° furnaces spin the plant's secret recipe of sand, soda ash, borax and limestone into billions of billowy glass fibers, which will be cooled, packed and cut into battens of fiber-glass insulation. The workers running the furnaces are the last of a dying breed: people holding good jobs who never earned a high school diploma. Thirty years ago, the men came...
...next day was Ash Wednesday. I woke up in my bed, not caring whether I went to school or not, my textbooks and papers strewn across my room. When I realized that it was Ash Wednesday, I decided to go to Mass. I left my calculus assignment on the floor and drove my Jeep to church...
...Harvard Yard.”Amanda L. Shapiro ’08, the chief recruitment officer of the Harvard Secular Society, says she doesn’t “find the Christian presence too overwhelming,” even if it was a little harder to avoid on Ash Wednesday.As President Eliot wrote in 1886, “A university cannot be built upon a sect”—unless that sect includes all the “educated portion of the nation.” Indeed, the active presence of groups like Christian Impact, Hillel...
...social and economic gaps between the northern and southern hemispheres, while accelerating the democratic revolution through the citizen sector in developing countries,” according to Ashoka’s website. Drayton was introduced at the Forum by Gowher Rizvi, the director of the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation and a lecturer at the Kennedy School. “When you think about anyone who brought about a great change in the 20th century, one of them has to be Billy Drayton,” Rizvi said. “Drayton invented the term social entrepreneurship...