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...admission to Harvard gave her a sense of success and elitism that most only dream of. After graduation, she had her eyes set on reforming the American educational system. There was just one hitch: as a seven-year-old, Elena had crossed the border between the United States and Mexico illegally...
...hitch in that great new technology is that while Oxyride is clearly better for digital cameras and other gadgets that slurp up a lot of energy in pulses, it is less effective for things that consume low amounts of energy at a constant rate, like radios and smoke alarms. "Our preliminary tests show that Oxyride is a good cell," says Paul Klatt, a quality-assurance engineer for Batteries Plus, a retail chain specializing in batteries. "But its niche is really higher-drain devices...
...evacuees are still living. Turnout in predominantly African-American precincts was about 30% vs. nearly 50% for mostly white precincts, according to an analysis by GCR and Associates, done for the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority. Although Secretary of State Al Ater said the election went off without a hitch, Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition has threatened to sue for violation of voting rights...
...called a male student out of the pool, and a dramatic confrontation ensued. Many other staff and security members went to the scene, but it was discovered that the viewer had simply fallen out of the inner tube and was soon let back in. The show continued without a hitch. “I’d love to see the MAC Attack become an annual event at Harvard,” Horovitz wrote in an e-mail. “It definitely has the potential to become an ongoing tradition. It’s the kind of thing...
While technical difficulties plagued his and others’ screenings last year, this year’s went off without a hitch. Horovitz’s documentary “The 12:30 Group,” about a group of elderly golfers who are local legends in Rockport, Mass., was originally made for Professor of the Practice of Filmmaking, Ross McElwee’s non-fiction video course. The short was one of several films by Harvard students that screened during the festival...