Word: concordance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some prisoners on pre-release may end up back in prison as one of 700 inmates in MCI-Concord, where Eric Weaver '86 leads a group of six Harvard tutors. Because Concord is a clearinghouse for most prisoners, it is quite large, but Weaver only deals with the 100 prisoners who comprise the "permanent population." The six undergraduates tutor about 12 prisoners in the library. Because the population is so transitory, Weaver has given up working one on one with specific prisoners week after week...
Some prisoners are highly motivated, says Concord volunteer Debra S. Niestat '88, "If they pass the GED it's because they wanted to, not because...
Indeed, the whole course of American history can be interpreted as a series of legends abandoned. Not only did Paul Revere never say "One if by land, two if by sea," and all that, but he never even got to Concord to warn the Minutemen of the oncoming British. Nathan Hale probably never said on the gallows, "I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Jefferson preached that all men are equal, but he kept slaves, and so did Washington. And Betsy Ross never sewed that first American flag either...
Greenberg said that a similar case in Concord, N.H., was resolved Thursday afternoon when the city manager there announced that the town would place a sign next to a Knights of Columbus creche on city land in front of the state house. The sign said that Concord did not endorse any demonstration of religion...
...soon Kennedy, Kilson, Bush, and Hennessey will have to face an important change. Keezer's is moving--from Concord Ave., far beyond the Quad, to River Street in Central Square...