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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Is there Nazi gold in the Vatican basement? A recently declassified 50-year-old Treasury Department memo says the Vatican held onto 200 million Swiss francs passed it by a Nazi puppet government. Quoting a "reliable source in Italy," Treasury agent Emerson Bigelow wrote his superior in 1946 that after the fall of Nazi Germany, members of the Nazi puppet Ustasha government of Croatia sent 350 million confiscated Swiss francs to the Vatican "for safekeeping." En route, some 150 million were apparently seized by British authorities at the Austrian-Swiss border. The balance was held in the Vatican...
...Mandy Bigelow '97, a resident of Eliot House who has been working with HAND since her sophomore year at Harvard, said she views literacy instruction as an essential step in helping young people to achieve success...
...Much of the tutor's role is to teach these kids how to study. They need to learn how to read so they can study history or algebra," Bigelow said...
...concerns were quite valid, so [HAND co-chair Amanda H. Bigelow '97] and I have given the issue a lot of thought, but we both feel that [HAND] could be a positive contributor," Feinstein said...
...that the only person found to support the reporters' slant was a non-member of HAND. We gave the reporters real news about positive changes in a program that hundreds of students dedicate their time to, but it was apparently not the story they wanted to tell. --Mandy H. Bigelow '97, co-chair of HAND