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...woman's broken English mirrors the young children??s still-developing language skills, and so in the end, both parties think they’ve come to an understanding. “The White House was bombed,” the young boy says knowingly as he turns around to his mother...
...nation, building coalitions on issues from discrimination to campaign finance to health to education. I have covered a few of his failures, notably his attempts to enact national health insurance. But there were more successes, like the 1965 immigration bill that ended national origins quotas, the creation of the Children??s Health Insurance Program (now SCHIP) in 1997, and battles to raise the minimum wage. (“If you’re not for raising the minimum wage,” he told a nervous colleague, John Kerry, in 1995, “you don?...
...sons to thy jubilee throng!” Obviously, there is a gender-insensitive term there which prompted Kendric Packer ’48, to propose a contest to Harvard alums to provide a fitting alternative. Simply replacing “sons” with “children?? had a belittling connotation and afforded one two many syllables to keep pace with the old Irish tune on which Fair Harvard is based. So, after four years of discussions and vigorous debate in alumni journals, the greater Harvard community settled on the new opening verse...
...Cory A. Booker: No, I really wanted to be a community activist. And I had some specific heroes at that time. People like Geoffrey Canada who is the head of the Harlem Children??s Zone—somebody who I really revered. He was able to create a great comprehensive community initiative. And people like Marian Wright Edelman were creating an entire movement around children. So I didn’t necessarily think that the best way to make change was through politics until I got on the ground in Newark...
Rowling, the renowned children??s author who made her name with the wildly popular “Harry Potter” series, will also be the keynote speaker at Thursday’s Commencement ceremonies...