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...crisis couldn't come at a worse time: many charities, such as City Harvest, which delivers leftover food from restaurants to the needy in New York City, collect the bulk of their donations during the holiday season, and with unemployment on the rise and 401(k) plans tanking, it's likely to be a blue Christmas. Over the past two years, City Harvest received $100,000 from Lehman alone - one of the charity's Top 5 donors. "We are obviously very concerned," says Jilly Stephens, City Harvest's executive director. "We have the bulk of our fund-raising ahead...
This past summer a new novel burst onto the children’s literary scene. A story set in an enchanted world where man can manipulate matter with only his mind, “The Cabinet of Wonders,” written by Marie K. Rutkoski, relates the story of a 14-year-old girl named Petra who seeks to recover her father’s eyes from the prince of Bohemia. This past Tuesday, Rutkoski returned to Harvard, where she earned her Ph. D., and spoke with The Crimson about the limits of fantasy, the maddening appeal of Henry...
...Street Inn. “I’m willing to work but there are no jobs. I don’t know how to work a computer, but I’ll wash dishes, I’ll do anything,” he said. State Representative Alice K. Wolf, whose district includes Harvard Square, said she sympathizes with Reddick. “This downturn of the economy has hit working people particularly hard,” said Wolf. In order to combat this epic rise in homelessness, Wolf has lobbied for appropriations for the homeless. This fiscal year?...
...upperclassman houses. The program features drop-in hours with a Mental Health Services staff member, during which students can confidentially and informally talk about their mental health concerns and questions. From depression to homesickness to financial woes, no issues are off-limits according to MHS Director Paul K. Barreira. He led the initiative after finding that similar programs had been successful at Columbia University and Cornell. In the process, UHS hopes to destigmatize professional mental health care and to make it more accessible to students at the College. “All that we’ve learned from students...
...There’s definitely significant support on both sides,” said student government President David K. Kessler ’04, a third-year student. “There are many people who are adamantly in favor of the grade change applying immediately, and there are many people who think that the grade change should not apply to this class...