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...looked at the lives of 100 prominent Americans, ages 40 to 55, and found that those who had come from disadvantaged backgrounds were especially likely to cite the influence of a mentor as a key to their success. Sometimes a caring teacher served "as a parent substitute," says Charles Harrington, who co-directed the study. Sometimes the teacher provided an affirming "turnaround moment," for example, by standing up for a child and saying, "Henry wouldn't lie." That moment of validation, he notes, "transforms Henry...
...Washington, arrive at a designated parking place, and do it all while getting 300 m.p.g." By the same analogy, could the car then drive on to other cities too? Apparently. Barring problems, DS1 will have enough fuel and navigational smarts to proceed to a burned-out comet called Wilson-Harrington in January 2001 and, as its grand finale, to Comet Borrelly later that year...
...OTHER AMERICA (1962) Michael Harrington's report of ingrained, persistent poverty beneath the affluent surface of U.S. life raised a problem that many of his readers thought had long been solved. Among those readers was President John F. Kennedy, who proposed that the nation's poor needed federal help. Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty was launched by Harrington's book...
Produced by Seth Harrington...
Other board members elected include Club Coordinator Oliver M. Lewis '00, Loeb Ex Coordinator, Michael P. Davidson '00, Publicity Coordinator Peter T. Wilson '98, Campus Liaison John B. Cearley '99, Technical Liaison Daniel O. Scully '99, Vice-President and Mainstage Coordinator Jennie E. Connery '99 and Treasurer Seth C. Harrington...