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...Orleans, without his family, volunteering at a food bank and then dumping dirt in the yard of a house in the Ninth Ward area of the city that was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. On the third day, dressed in jeans and tennis shoes, and standing in the muddy backyard of that same home in the Ninth Ward, Edwards declared he was running for President...
...afternoon, hundreds of students partied up at this year’s official Harvard-Yale tailgate. But something was different about this year’s festivities, and it wasn’t just the police state: Tailgaters were dancing, partying, and puking in someone else’s backyard...
Namely, the backyard of 213 families living in the Charlesview Apartments, the low-income housing complex that currently stands in the way of Harvard’s plans for expansion across the river into Allston. Charlesview has been the backyard of approximately 600 residents for 35 years, but whether we’re getting down at the Game or imagining where a “Welcome to Harvard-Allston” sign would look best, it is easy to forget that Charlesview, like the rest of lower Allston, is a place where people live...
...least privileged, the ones excluded from the benefits of Harvard. They have stood up with workers. They have stood up with victims of discrimination. They have stood up for oppressed people in foreign lands. It’s about time we stand up for the people in our own backyard. Because, really, it’s their backyard, not ours...
Every Christmas Season, Jan Bukvaj builds an enormous landscape out of tree stumps, moss and dried flowers in a studio in his backyard. At the scene's center he places century-old wood-carved figurines representing the Holy Family. He then populates the slopes, lakes and caves with several hundred animals, shepherds, fishermen, hunters, hunched grannies and bearded villagers, many of which were carved and painted by Bukvaj himself. But he wishes it was even bigger: Bukvaj feels that his 7-m-by-3-m room still doesn't provide enough space for his nativity scene. "If I only could...