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...final interview for the Gardner fellowship, Klein says she squeaked, headbanged, and drummed on a table, to mixed reactions from her interviewers. “Some were really into it, some looked like they wanted to kill me,” she says. Klein will use her hard-earned grant to study gender in the underground music scene in Japan. “Basically, I’m going to go to a lot of concerts and Harvard will be paying for it,” she quips. But first, she will work at the New York branch...
...more recently, in 2000, the Gates Foundation gave a five-year, $45 million grant to a Harvard Medical School program aimed at battling multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Peru...
...Crimson was my original springboard and an experience to which I constantly referred, from the summer following my freshman year to this past winter, when I applied for grant money to write in the Dominican Republic...
...fragile Senate bill rests on three pillars: legalization of illegal residents, tighter border controls and the creation of a new guest-worker program that would grant up to 200,000 two-year visas annually. North Carolina, which imports more legal farmworkers than any other state, offers an idea of how the guest-worker proposal might look in action. During the past growing season, I canvassed the state, from the Christmas-tree farms in the western mountains to the crab plants on the eastern shore, and found a guest-worker program that is orderly, rational, legal--and almost completely unworkable...
...what his supporters say is his true political self. And he is often cast as a person in power - a military official, the White House chief of staff, the head of the CIA, a Senator or even the President of the U.S. It could be called the Cary Grant approach to politics. As the legendary actor once explained his own style and success, "I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be, and I finally became that person...