Word: liana
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...industry experts interviewed by TIME, as well as a new report from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. "This is incredibly important because we're talking about people who, for whatever reason, have been pushed to the fringes of society," says policy analyst Liana Fox of the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington-based research group...
City Year, founded in 1988, is best known for its program for 17-to-24-year-olds who volunteer for a full year of service in schools in underserved communities. The Young Heroes component was started in 1995 when Liana Gonzalez, a precocious 13-year-old, asked why she couldn't volunteer in her Boston neighborhood like the older City Year corps members. The youth program has recently gone national thanks to a major investment by Bank of America...
...that most of their advisees are not in a single entryway. “My situation is that I’m in Grays and I have eight advisees, eight live in Grays Middle and one in East and I have study breaks with East,” Liana H. Fixell ’09 said. —Staff writer Nina L. Vizcarrondo can be reached at nvizcarr@fas.harvard.edu...
...entire collection, designed by Paola Navone, dedicated to woven materials. The CROCO line, for example, includes a daybed in handwoven crocodile rattan with a wooden frame and solid teak feet. Other pieces include armchairs and sofas made of black pulut and seats crafted from malacca canes?a type of liana originating in the jungles of Borneo and Sumatra...
...seen as an adult figure. On one of her first days in the classroom, she was introduced as “Ms. Ricketts,” and her reaction was, “Oh no! I’m not used to anyone calling me that.” Liana R. Tuller ’99 remembers one instance when she’d told a student of hers at Charlestown High School to turn off his Eminem. “He got all excited that I knew who the rapper was,” she says...