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...initially backed the war, and it is appalling to watch that support vanish as people are asked to do more than place flags on their SUVs. Keeping the gas tax at its current level only serves to enrich OPEC nations at the expense of the U.S. The heads of Ford and General Motors have already voiced support for an increased gasoline tax. It's time for the rest of America to join them. NEAL GORDON Los Altos, Calif...
...largest obstacles Ford faces is academic. Because it is difficult for him to read printed material, Ford needs books to be converted into digitally synthesized speech in order to study. Though Harvard is required to provide him with equal access in this area, his experience has been anything but easy. The only computer equipped to convert his books into speech sits in the Science Center, far from Ford’s home in Currier. Ford says he’d like to see stations installed in all libraries. But at Yale, his ideal system wouldn’t suffice: they...
...Ford wouldn’t say whether he’s confronted the administration with the fact that their programs don’t seem to measure up. But in the past, he said, he has written to them with words of advice and complaint. Concocting solutions to the obstacles he faces is a skill Ford mastered in high school, where his petitions succeeded in making life easier...
...Ford, who has often been forced to make do with what Harvard offers, has two pieces of advice for prospective students. “The most important thing for them to know is what they’re entitled to and to really push the University,” he says, “even if the University disagrees with it.” Second, “Going to Harvard is worth...
...Ford follows his own advice. He has considered becoming a disability-rights attorney after graduation...