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Realistically, Harvard might well admit the aspirant student I met here on his test scores, GPA and leadership roles. Yet his cultural background will not overtly receive the same pluses that await other minorities. Of course, an 18-year-old who has managed to work 80-hour harvest weeks, while doing make-up schoolwork and teaching himself Latin is usually preferable to yet another Stuyvesant grad in the eyes of Harvard admissions. Then again, anyone who has raised himself out of the gang culture of an inner city to get a 1500 SAT score would likely gain admission to Harvard...
...took the girls each week to Soak City, a local water park. He has been a role model to his youngest half sibling, Victor Jr., 21, a bank teller. Twice, Cesar has been on the phone with Victor Jr. when shots and explosions could be heard in the background, and Cesar hung up in a got-to-go hurry. "Then I can't sleep," says Victor Jr. To cope with his worries, he bangs on his drum set in the basement or goes target shooting...
...with options such as minor fields of study, clusters—subjects outside of students’ area of concentration that might not fit into a particular department—and large core courses dubbed “supercourses” that would provide every student with a common background...
...doesn’t make any difference,” said resident Elaire Perron, while his wife Pauline perused her copy of Edwards’ policy book, otherwise known as “the Plan.” “He’s from a similar background as us. This area used to be textile area before it moved south...
Simply put, there’s nothing on the new album that you’re going to hear in the background of MTV’s Rich Girls, like the hook from 2000’s, “Mr. Your On Fire Mr.,” off the debut, which recently made this television appearance. That exercise in poor syntax was recently covered by the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s, another band in the growing crowd of NYC art-punks, whose flamboyant lead singer Karen O dates the flamboyant lead singer of The Liars, Angus Andrew?...