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...middle school. A fire destroyed her family's apartment and left them homeless for four months. She landed in a large, impersonal high school, and quickly became disengaged. "I started getting into drugs--weed, drinking, cocaine and heroin." After two years of mostly cutting class, she had accumulated a grand total of one credit. When she tried to transfer to another school, "the dean pretty much laughed in my face," she says. At 16, she stopped going to school. "I didn't see myself having any kind of future. I would get some job I hated and just survive...
...Schoenberger said the U.S has subpoenaed Google and a number of other popular search engines for use of their personally identifiable search inquiry records as a counter-terrorism measure. “Google is committed to protecting user privacy while abiding by the law,” said Victoria Grand, a Google spokeswoman. “Last year, we went to court to resist a [Department of Justice] subpoena for millions of search queries on the grounds that it was excessive and invaded our users’ privacy.” “The judge ultimately ruled in Google?...
...bridge the gap between attraction and connection. Daniel “Zac” Tanjeloff ’08 and David M. Galkowski ’08, and their business plan for Check My Radar, a new take on social networking Web sites, walked away with the grand prize in a competition held this semester by the newly-formed Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum (HCEF).HCEF will link the winners of their 2007 Startup Plan Competition and Summer Fellowship Program to an early-stage investor who will provide up to $10,000 to cover the team’s expenses while...
...that will provide legal services to theater performers and other struggling artists. It’s that idea of combining seemingly disparate fields—science and music, law and performance—that has marked his approach to arts.“This is another one of my grand visions of the world,” he says. “I have a lot of faith in the power of art. I love theater people and artists. I want to help them on an ideological level. I want to help them so that they can effect change...
While the Holden Choirs and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) are known for grand productions on their own, their combined performance for Arts First weekend will be enormous by any standard. The presentation of Mahler’s famed “Symphony No. 2” will mark the first time since 2003 that HRO and the Holden Choirs (the Harvard Glee Club, the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and the Radcliffe Choral Society) have worked together. “We’re legendarily the sort of ‘big bang’ of Arts First, and this...