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...Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, examined America's race and class divides and opened a window into the lives of upwardly mobile blacks; of brain cancer; in Los Angeles. Literature left an early mark on Campbell. Her mother believed memorization was key to education, and pushed her to commit to memory passages ranging from Psalm 23 to Shakespeare to Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry. Education remained a theme in Campbell's life. She taught elementary school for five years before turning fully to writing but never truly left her earlier profession. Her lyrical works were laden with...
These are the kinds of crimes American cities expected never to see in high numbers again. In the 1990s police departments nationwide began applying the so-called broken-windows theory: arrest the bad guys for minor offenses, and they wouldn't be around to commit more serious ones. This zero-tolerance approach--combined with more cops on the street to enforce it, a strong economy and a fortuitous demographic change that reduced the population of young men who typically cause the most trouble--lowered the rates of murder, robbery and rape for 10 consecutive years. Until last year. Not only...
...says Zambrano. Chamorro-Padilla is a second-generation immigrant who attended University of California-Santa Barbara, and believes that higher education is essential. “Today, college is the way to success. I think generally people know that; the difference is between those that know and those that commit to getting there: to make that dream into a reality. That’s what Andy’s striving...
...family, Jain said, “It’s really easy to save someone’s life.” Representatives from SAMAR or Matchpia will be present at all the drives to answer patients questions, distribute information, and explain to volunteers that being tested does not commit anybody to donating their bone marrow, according to Goswami. Although the process is completely anonymous, the patient is notified when a match is found. “When someone matches and says no, it is the most cruel thing one human being can do to another,” Khan...
...very upset at our [lack of] commitment to do the things that we know make us a successful hockey team,” added Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91. “Our inability to really commit ourselves. to outwork, out-hit, and outplay teams in our own building is alarming...