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...ensuing calls from the superintendent—one after a janitor mistook Oedipus Jr.. number seven for a mouse and killed him; another when a fellow Leverett student captured one in his room—the party line was, “Hamsters? What hamsters?” Obviously, we knew nothing about...
It’s Thursday morning, 10:10 a.m., and nine students—each from a different country—are copying down vocabulary words furiously from a newspaper article on the war in Iraq. Celia C. Chacon, a woman from El Salvador, works as a janitor in the Semitic Museum, and Viena I. Erazo, from Honduras, works for Restaurant Associates at the Business School. Before heading off to their jobs at the University, they sit around a conference table above Planet Aid on JFK Street and work on their English for free, courtesy of Harvard University. They?...
...Boston contingent, including a Harvard janitor and two Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) members—siblings Daniel DiMaggio ’04 and Sara T. DiMaggio ’06—went down to New Haven yesterday to join the strikers...
That's when an irate Kennedy called in his space experts and told them he wanted to beat the Russians to the moon, and if they did not know how to do it, they should ask the janitor over at NASA. The space race was getting more complex, with men beginning to ride those dangerous rockets. But Kennedy relished the challenge and, indeed, the danger. So did America...
...born two years after the communist victory, grew up in the social ghetto reserved for children of traitors. During the Cultural Revolution he was forced to leave high school, barred from applying to college, and given a job fit for the lowliest of political undesirables: as a night-shift janitor at a cotton mill in central Shaanxi province. When college entrance exams were reintroduced in 1977, Zhang was too old to be eligible. His only hope lay in the camera he purchased with the proceeds gained from selling his own blood...