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...were two or more years behind their peers in accumulating the 44 credits needed for graduation. An additional 68,000 had already dropped out. All told, New York's 138,000 lost and vulnerable kids made up a population larger than the combined public high school enrollment of Philadelphia, Houston and Boston...
...Harvard undergrad who has demonstrated outstanding artistry in the field of dance.” The award is named for a legendary former principal dancer in the New York City Ballet. To say that Koch is involved in the dance scene at Harvard is an understatement. Koch, a Houston native, is a member of both the Harvard Ballet Company and the Harvard Contemporary Dance Ensemble. She has choreographed dances for a number of student groups on campus, including the Harvard Early Music Society (HEMS), the Harvard Ballet Company, and the OFA Dance Program’s spring dance showcases...
...adult sexual assault visited the state capitol. The lone senator to vote against the bill reminded his colleagues of their visit. "At some point we have to decide where do we draw the line on something that's politically right but morally wrong," State Senator Rodney Ellis, a Houston Democrat, said as he cast his vote. "I'm for the death penalty, but I think it would be nice if we had a system where we got the right...
...Valenti, who died Thursday at 85 from complications of a stroke, seemed a good fit for that antique era. A hardscrabble Texas kid who at 14 had worked as "an usher in a second-run theater in Houston called the Iris," he flew 51 combat missions for the Air Force in World War II, got a Harvard M.B.A. on the GI Bill and hooked up with a back-home politician named Lyndon Johnson. Valenti was the Vice President's press rep on a trip to Dallas in November 1963 and stood next to him on the flight back to Washington...
...Shocking is only part of it. Awkward is more of the feeling that I get. I saw homeless people back home in Houston. I’d see them downtown, under freeways, and in other places. It wasn’t the same though. It wasn’t personal in those situations. I’d see people while driving and give them money sometimes, and at other times not give them money. I never really talked to them. It was always an interaction with some distant person that I’d probably never see again...