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When Congress allocated federal work-study funds this year, Harvard's share--about $3 million, according to Marcy Homer, director of Student Employment--increased by about 10 percent. About 5 percent of the increase, the first in 13 years, was earmarked for public service...
...Homer told a group of students assembled for the open house that the funding jump means that Harvard can afford to pay a full work-study hourly wage to any student who wants to participate in one of the America Reads programs on campus...
Undergraduates on work-study receive $7.50 per hour for America Reads tutoring, while graduate students get $11.00. Homer said students who display a significant level of commitment to the program may get small raises...
...Then on to 1939's Of Mice and Men, wherein Meredith, opposite the immortal Lon Chaney Jr., fields a lot of questions about rabbits. Finish with the languorous, creepy Hollywood pic The Day of the Locust (1975), with Meredith, Karen Black and Donald Sutherland as a fellow actually named Homer Simpson. It earned Meredith his first Best Supporting Actor nomination (they would stiff him twice...
...unequaled strategic genius. His $150 million has also won him several subtler victories. Saving the Mac maintains his $300 million share of the 20 million-strong Mac-user base while increasing Apple's reliance on Microsoft software to keep the public hooked on its computers. The deal, says Mike Homer, a Netscape executive vice president, "puts the whole application base in Microsoft's hands. And if they control that, they control the Macintosh...