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Harvard’s Meredith Jameses stand in opposition to students like Amy E. Keel ’04, who hesitated to apply to or attend Harvard solely because of cost. The daughter of two public school teachers, Keel grew up in wealthy Milton, Mass. as the odd family out. “I hated when kids at school would read off long lists of what they got for Christmas,” says Keel. “I never had as much stuff. My mother wanted to have more kids, but we didn’t have enough money...
Although her parents encouraged her to apply to Harvard, Keel was consumed by guilt: “My parents already had $75,000 of debt. I should go to a state school where I could get a decent education. My parents wanted me to go to a good school but I knew it would be too hard on them. Especially since I have a younger brother.” Keel also understood that Harvard’s financial burden would partially fall on her. During high school, Keel worked 14-hour weeks as a baby-sitter and at the library...
...electric boat - powered by large batteries arranged along the keel, below the flooring of the cockpit - proceeds by stealth. Leaving the marina at Norrie Point, we picked up a few weeds that wrapped themselves around the propeller and threw the rotation of the shaft off true, causing a slight vibration in the tiller. Otherwise, the boat was frictionless and silent - a dreamlike passage. A few sailboats were out, luffing around a course. Now and then, a powerboat would approach us on a snarling Doppler, would rooster noisily past, and recede...
...While the public at large has been mostly receptive to the overhauls, which can be expensive, there are some, like Texas representative Terry Keel, who fear that legislating standards of legal representation will merely prove burdensome to the state and to defendants themselves. In a statement last month, Keel argued that the new guidelines could interfere with healthy defense programs in certain Texas counties, where judges and experienced defense attorneys collaborate to provide indigent defendants with legal advice...
...coaches did a good job keeping us on an even keel, when it could've gotten out of hand," Kolarik said. "We maintained composure and that was the key to the victory...