Word: lasting
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...last stipulation, also called the Difference Principle, insists that the situation of the poorest members of society be considered when creating a system of justice. It allows inequality of wealth and income, but only if the prosperity of the top can be harnessed to contribute to the well-being of the bottom...
...fact, Harvard says it makes a special effort to consider applications from Cambridge high school students, with 40 percent of last year's applicants from Rindge gaining admission. Harvard's overall acceptance rate was just 20 percent, says Dwight D. Miller, a senior admissions officer who oversees Cambridge-area applications...
Rindge and Latin senior Yao Feng, 18, is a recent immigrant from China who was tutored last year by Tim K. Marks '90 in pre-calculus as part of the Cambridge School Volunteers program. "He [Marks] helped me understand word problems. When you talk one-to-one, it's very helpful," says Yao Feng...
Holdt recalls an incident last spring that reinforced her sense of how separate Harvard and its high school neighbor are. During a party at Adams House, a fight broke out between Harvard students and Rindge and Latin students. The Harvard police, she says, arrested only the Rindge and Latin students...
...last match until next January 30, the Harvard women's squash team cruised to an 8-1 destruction of Bowdoin yesterday in Brunswick, Maine...