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Over the course of two decades, Zeckhauser guided eight administrative departments that provide basic services ranging from real estate management to facilities and maintenance operations...
...held our own against Roger Williams with a 3-2 record against them,” Himler added. Harvard appeared to have no trouble shaking off the rust in its first action in about four months, as the Crimson ended the first of two full round robins among the eight competing teams on day one of the regatta with a 6-1 record. This quick start propelled Harvard into the gold round robin on day two, where, along with the Hawks from Roger Williams, the two schools easily showed themselves to be the class of the field. Boston College finished...
...movie, led a roustabout life for years before ending up as an auto-rickshaw driver in Bangalore. Syed gave an interview to an Indian paper the week after Slumdog's Oscar victory, saying, "I roamed the streets of Mumbai, knocked on the doors of producers for nearly eight months, but luck did not smile. In 1993, I returned to Bangalore and began life anew. I've three children who are studying." He said he is writing a screenplay and hopes it will get made into a film someday. (See what life is like in a Mumbai slum...
Another foundation, Kids with Cameras, set up to look after the eight children of prostitutes featured in the 2004 documentary Born into Brothels, fared much better with its wards. The children were taught to take photographs and sell them. "The kids have earned over $100,000, which goes directly to their education," says Ross Kauffman, one of the film's producers. Two of the children have gone on to study in the U.S. Still, the kids have to make the choice themselves to better their lives. Some of them have great difficulty doing so. One of the girls has apparently...
...Azhar's education until they turn 18. A "substantial lump sum" as well as housing will also be given to the children when they complete their studies. The producers have also arranged for a rickshaw to take the children to a nonprofit English-language school, Asheema, for the next eight years, just to make sure they attend. Already there are signs of new affluence in the kids' slum dwellings. Rubiana's house was reportedly fitted with a 32-in. LCD TV screen and a new gas stove...