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...litist government. Too few of the ministers during the past 30 years have come up through the ranks from an ordinary background. They form a modern-day monarchical court. The buildings they work in are palatial, the apartments they live in are sumptuous, and the schools they attend to reach such lofty heights are prestigious. Their grasp of the realities of the average worker can only be patchy. That inevitably results in social eruptions. Valda Lynen Vallauris, France Fair Trade for All Your capsule history of economic globalization [March 27] outlined the ebb and flow of trade among nations over...
...think the Allston community is open-minded and very curious,” says Chris Gordon, the chief operating officer of the Allston Development Group. “Of course they want to make sure they have a role.”Hurley says she has attended the meetings with the Allston Task Force (once characterized by its chairman as a “little local, yokel group”) and thinks that the University tries to cooperate with residents, but resists stating more than the bare minimum about its plans.“They do try to answer what...
Harvard’s camp wound up being the only one that a healthy Pilconis could attend. By the time he arrived in Cambridge, he was ready to play, and was surprised by his short time at Harvard...
...offer elite colleges,” said Josh Wyner, vice president for programming at the Cooke Foundation, a foundation that provides scholarships for students at community college. Community college students include large populations of minorities, students from single parent families or who are the first in their families to attend college, and low income students that four-year colleges seek to recruit to increase diversity, according to Wyner. But many private top-tier colleges, such as Harvard, are not reaching out to encourage applications from community colleges.Community college students at Harvard commented that applying to the college was a decision...
...organizers on how militant the message should be - whether they should encourage people to skip school, refuse to work and boycott local stores. On Monday, Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony, a fierce proponent of immigrant rights, released a statement encouraging his city's constituents to attend a city rally in the evening rather than abandon their posts on May 1; he even suggests bosses allot time for immigration discussions on the clock. According to Mahony's statement, students should "understand that boycotting school on May 1st will not bring about just and humane immigration reform - sometimes, boycotts could even work...