Word: granted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great honor," said Maria Elena Alvarado '95, one of the grant winners. "I wasn't sure that I was going to be able to continue my work, but now with the money I will." Alvarado will be working with unemployed Puerto Rican mothers in the South...
According to Johnson, the grant winners are chosen by the Harvard Fellowship Committee. The committee consists of the administration, members of the faculty and Stride Rite representatives...
Harvard was apparently interested in Grant because of the "orphan angle" as much as because of her academic achievements. The enchantment of the noble admissions officer with Grant's rags-to-riches success story and the disgust when faced with the reality behind that myth creates a wonderful irony, illuminating the shallow standards on which admission applicants are judged...
...same time, Grant's juvenile record was sealed because the matter is supposed to be ended. The Grant Affair shows that the past is never so neatly shut. It's in vain for the justice system to claim that her background is simply irrelevant. The past will always be with her, even while she fades from the national spotlight...
Ultimately, the justice of Harvard's action really depends upon who killed Grant's mother . Which of these two caricatures applied to Harvard? Neither Grant's now ill-advised untruths, nor Harvard's reflexive response reveal who she was. And so the answer remains behind the scenes, outside of the press and the controversy, in the heart of a girl who murdered her mother...