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...only experienced a tiny portion of the sub-Saharan country. Where she had previously lived in a poor rural village, Cohen found herself in an area where Passats lined the street across from the university where she studied. The sociology concentrator, who grew up in Washington, DC, also chose to go to “a predominantly black high school in a predominantly white area” and learned first-hand about racial and class segregation. Cohen says she thought staying in the public school system was crucial for her own development. “I had everything I needed...
Matthew P. Downer ’07, former president of the Harvard Republican Club and a Senior Class committee member on the subcommittee that chose Clinton, said that he was “personally excited” to meet Clinton and hear what...
...according to Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley Hoffmann, one of the five founders of Social Studies, the concentration carefully chose students during its initial years less in order to select the best of Harvard’s crop and more because they worried that most students at Harvard could not complete an interdisciplinary thesis...
...academic specialty has nevertheless lived on, a fact of which today’s students are only too aware. Bernstein said, “Social Studies has a cache to it, and some seniors have told me that they didn’t know what to do and they chose Social Studies because of its prestige.” She added, “Social Studies is a major commitment. We reject a few students—a very few—because of their academic record, but it’s really an issue of students’ ability...
...advocates notwithstanding, the biggest issue to emergency authorities are the people who stayed in New Orleans for Katrina because they refused to leave their pets behind. "To a lot of people, these animals are their children," Sneed says. A survey conducted after Katrina found that 44% of those who chose to ride out the storm did it because they could not evacuate with their animals. Should another evacuation be called, he says, "we have to make it more practical for people to leave than to stay. If one of the reasons people stayed was because they had pets, then...