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...rebuild or to pay off their mortgage. They have not yet decided where or even whether they will eventually build a new home in Pass Christian. Albert is partial to staying right by the Gulf, where the old house was. Anne would prefer to be on higher ground and, in any case, wonders whether the couple could afford the new insurance rates for waterfront property. They could simply buy and stay in Orfila's house. One thing is certain: wherever they end up, it won't be too far from Coast Episcopal...
...works at a red stucco, French Quarter--themed Doubletree Inn in the suburbs of Atlanta, cleaning rooms for $7.15 an hour. But Brown, 27, isn't complaining. She doesn't get health insurance, but her employers are supportive. And she makes enough to afford the $595 rent for the ground floor of a duplex she found to share with her daughters Vivian, 13, and Angeline, 9, on a cul-de-sac off a quiet, wooded street in Marietta, Ga. "It's just us," Brown contentedly told TIME two weeks ago. "We're like the three bears here...
...read Rousseau’s own works. Damrosch is very good at communicating the scope of Rousseau’s influence on later thinkers and entire fields of inquiry, but this is not quite the same. Isaac Newton’s “Principia” was also ground-breaking and influential, but so far as I know is not required reading among mathematicians and physicists. History is littered with formerly influential writers who are no longer relevant; Rousseau is not one of them, but I am not sure if this will be clear to readers.Damrosch takes a sunnier...
...states “All we are knowing is that, before the war we are children and now we not.” It is a true and heartbreaking philosophical sentiment, but not necessarily the first one to come to a child in the midst of such on-the-ground chaos.There is an average of 300,000 child soldiers fighting around the world at any given time. In African countries such as Uganda, Sierra-Leone, Burundi, and Liberia, as well as in many South East Asian countries, children, often under ten years of age, have been or are abducted...
...don’t apply based on stereotypes,” says Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67. Byerly’s outreach program seeks to dispel these darker aspects of the Harvard myth: that the University is a leisure-class training ground where only the wealthiest are welcome. The new recruiting techniques, such as targeting low-income applicants by zip code and paying personal visits to students in economically depressed regions, aim to make Harvard’s resources appear more accessible to the working class...