Word: homelessness
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This is the first article in a three-part series about formerly homeless mother Kimberly S.M. Woo '10 and other transfer students from community colleges called "The Road Less Traveled."Part 2: Harvard Lags in Community College RecruitmentPart 3: Mixed Blessings for Student Mother
Harvard students today engage in policy discussions on endemic social problems, operate a homeless shelter, and dedicate entire years to service abroad in the poorest parts of the world—all without the encouragement of their deans and professors or the lure of a desk at Goldman Sachs. To call this an inferior mode of social participation to the occupation of a building seems blinkered and unreasonable. The actions of current students are just different responses to a very different world...
Books have more than just sentimental value to some sellers. Harvard students are probably unaccustomed to seeing Frenchie (no last name given) and her partner Ken O’Brien, the formerly homeless owners of the movable bookstand outside of J. August Co. on Mass. Ave., without their faithful cat and dog—but they’re inside now, and they won’t be coming back out. “We got an apartment just by selling books without any Section 8 government help, or anything to do with that,” Frenchie said...
...connects to all those ideas of loneliness and abandonment." Occasionally Smith chooses art over commerce, on a character drama like Ali or Pursuit of Happyness, his two Oscar-nominated roles, but even then his pragmatism outweighs his passion. "Pursuit of Happyness is essentially a movie about a black homeless guy who gets a job," he says. "There's nowhere near my fee for that movie. This thing has to be under $50 million." The downbeat Happyness surprised everyone, not least of all Smith, by earning $305 million worldwide...
...Sarkar, the third Harvard recipient, hails from Edinburgh, Texas, and graduated last June with an A.B. in applied mathematics and a master’s in statistics. According to his biography on the American Web site for the Rhodes Trust, Sarkar wrote a prize-winning thesis on homeless children and intends to focus his study at Oxford on social issues. He could not be reached for comment yesterday afternoon. The awardees were announced over the weekend. A number of the countries where Rhodes Scholarships are awarded had not yet listed winners on their Web sites as of last night...