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...consisting of Joe Lin '00, Johnny Lee '01, Albert Pan '00 and Isaac Nakhimovsky '01, performed string quartets by Beethoven, Prokofiev and Brahms at their debut concert at Lowell Hall last Friday Presented by InterCity (a community service organization dedicated to bringing together public service and technology in the inner city), these talented players presented a balanced and accessible series of string quartets, showing off their individual talents while blending their voices into a harmonious whole...
Bush was in a hotel room too, a couple of towns away, surrounded by aides and exit polls and excuses. He reassured his tiny inner circle that no heads would roll, but he wanted some answers: "What the hell happened?" He was stunned by the size of his loss--and furious that his team not only had failed to prevent it but had failed even to predict it. As she thought about it the next morning, communications chief Karen Hughes admitted she should have known something was wrong when she heard there were more out-of-state volunteers...
...white kid sells a bag of cocaine at his suburban high school. A Latino kid does the same in his inner-city neighborhood. Both get caught. Both are first-time offenders. The white kid walks into juvenile court with his parents, his priest, a good lawyer--and medical coverage. The Latino kid walks into court with his mom, no legal resources and no insurance. The judge lets the white kid go with his family; he's placed in a private treatment program. The minority kid has no such option. He's detained...
...Census Bureau had suggested a way to avoid this undercount, using statistical techniques to determine a more accurate estimate of the total population. Unfortunately, these techniques (known as "statistical sampling") were banned last year by a GOP Congress concerned that the minorities and inner-city voters who comprise a disproportionate number of the undercounted would elect Democrats and that more accurate numbers would threaten Republican seats. (The same Congress later attempted to include the census as an "emergency" appropriation, presumably because no one could have predicted that the year 2000 would come exactly ten years after 1990.) The Supreme Court...
Instead, ASG recommends giving to charities like the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Phillips Brooks House Association and Get Ready, a non-profit organization started by members of Harvard's Class of 2000 that aims to help inner-city youth gain access to higher education though SAT prep, college guidance and community involvement programs...