Word: hardships
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...Given that his life has already seen enough hardship and redemption to warrant full bluesman stature, Ponnudorai is unfazed by the indifference. A Tamil by ethnicity and Malaysian by birth, he grew up in the tin-mining town of Ipoh, the youngest of 10. Ponnudorai's parents were too poor to buy him a metronome: he learned his exquisite sense of timing by playing along to the creak of an old ceiling fan. Naturally left-handed, he taught himself to play on a right-handed guitar because it was cheaper than a model strung for left-handers (and this...
...recounted tales of physical hardship in the ring that would make any stuntman wince, backing up his assertion about needing to get out before his body gave out first...
...while reviewers use ZIP codes to “determine in a rough kind of way” whether applicants have faced financial hardship, they do not use the aid forms to establish in a precise kind of way whether applicants have encountered economic obstacles...
...predictors of socioeconomic background, then it’s simply misleading to say (as the College does) that admissions are need blind. Need is known. If, on the other hand, the portrait painted by current information is imprecise, then Harvard is falling short in its effort to factor financial hardship into admissions...
...April 12, Fifteen Minutes (FM), The Crimson’s weekly magazine, ran a cover story about a group of undergraduate student organizations that were facing financial hardship because of the somewhat unwieldy way Harvard doles out student activity funds. Problem was, at least one of those groups, the quarterly magazine Diversity and Distinction, wasn’t currently facing financial hardship. They hadn’t been for as long as anyone currently in the College has been here. Yet, except for one point where the article says the magazine went into greater debt with each issue it published...